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¹Jacob Supplanter lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan Humbled.

²This is the history of the generations of Jacob Supplanter. Joseph May he add, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah Bashful and Zilpah Frailty, his father’s wives. Joseph May he add brought an evil report of them to their father.

³Now Israel God prevails 'ahav ·affectionately loved· Joseph May he add more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.

⁴His brothers saw that their father 'ahav ·affectionately loved· him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

⁵Joseph May he add dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.

⁶He said to them, “Please sh'ma ·hear obey· this dream which I have dreamed:

⁷for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.”

⁸His brothers said to him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.

⁹He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.”

¹⁰He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?”

¹¹His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind. (2)

¹²His brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.

¹³Israel God prevails said to Joseph May he add, “Are not your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” He said to him, “Here I am.”

¹⁴He said to him, “Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again.” So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

¹⁵A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, “What are you looking for?”

¹⁶He said, “I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock.”

¹⁷The man said, “They have left here, for I sh'ma ·heard obeyed· them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” Joseph May he add went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.

¹⁸They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

¹⁹They said to one another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.

²⁰Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”

²¹Reuben See, a son! sh'ma ·heard obeyed· it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.”

²²Reuben See, a son! said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”— that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father. (3)

²³When Joseph May he add came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph May he add of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;

²⁴and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.

²⁵They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites Pays attention God was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt Abode of slavery.

²⁶Judah Praised said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

²⁷Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites Pays attention God, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers sh'ma ·heard obeyed· him.

²⁸Midianites Descendants of Strife who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph May he add out of the pit, and sold Joseph May he add to the Ishmaelites Pays attention God for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph May he add into Egypt Abode of slavery.

²⁹Reuben See, a son! returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph May he add was not in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

³⁰He teshuvah ·completely returned· to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I, where will I go?”

³¹They took Joseph May he add’s coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.

³²They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son’s coat or not.”

³³He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s coat. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph May he add is without doubt torn in pieces.”

³⁴Jacob Supplanter tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

³⁵All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol ·Place of the dead· to my son mourning.” His father wept for him.

³⁶The Midianites Descendants of Strife sold him into Egypt Abode of slavery to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.