This is the account of Jacob.Joseph, his seventeen-year-old son, was taking care of the flocks with his brothers. Now he was a youngster working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.
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3Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons because he was a son born to him late in life, and he made a special tunic for him.
4When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated Joseph and were not able to speak to him kindly.
5Joseph had a dream, and when he told his brothers about it, they hated him even more.
6He said to them,“Listen to this dream I had:
10When he told his father and his brothers, his father rebuked him, saying,“What is this dream that you had? Will I, your mother, and your brothers really come and bow down to you?”
11His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what Joseph said.
12When his brothers had gone to graze their father’s flocks near Shechem,
1Joseph’s Dreams But Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, in the land of Canaan.
46Now Joseph was 30 years old when he began serving Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph was commissioned by Pharaoh and was in charge of all the land of Egypt.
5All the people who were directly descended from Jacob numbered seventy. But Joseph was already in Egypt,
23When Joseph reached his brothers, they stripped him of his tunic, the special tunic that he wore.
31So they took Joseph’s tunic, killed a young goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.
32Then they brought the special tunic to their father and said,“We found this. Determine now whether it is your son’s tunic or not.”
19The sons of Rachel the wife of Jacob: Joseph and Benjamin.
16He replied,“I’m looking for my brothers. Please tell me where they are grazing their flocks.”
17The man said,“They left this area, for I heard them say,‘Let’s go to Dothan.’” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
18Now Joseph’s brothers saw him from a distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.
13They replied,“Your servants are from a family of twelve brothers. We are the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is with our father at this time, and one is no longer alive.”
13On their second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers again, and Joseph’s family became known to Pharaoh.
14So Joseph sent a message and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come, seventy-five people in all.
28Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; the years of Jacob’s life were 147 in all.
7Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh. Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
36Now in Egypt the Midianites sold Joseph to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard.
24The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
29They returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan and told him all the things that had happened to them, saying,
12Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household, according to the number of their little children.
28So when the Midianite merchants passed by, Joseph’s brothers pulled him out of the cistern and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The Ishmaelites then took Joseph to Egypt.
22While Israel was living in that land, Reuben went to bed with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard about it.Jacob had twelve sons:
32We are from a family of twelve brothers; we are the sons of one father. One is no longer alive, and the youngest is with our father at this time in the land of Canaan.’
1Manasseh and Ephraim After these things Joseph was told,“Your father is weakening.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him.
9The patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. But God was with him,