Gn 37:1-4

Joseph Sold into Egypt. 1Jacob settled in the land where his father had sojourned, the land of Canaan.^* 2This is the story of the family of Jacob.^* When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flocks with his brothers; he was an assistant to the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and Joseph brought their father bad reports about them. 3Israel loved Joseph best of all his sons, for he was the child of his old age; and he had made him a long ornamented tunic.^* 4When his brothers saw that their father loved him best of all his brothers, they hated him so much that they could not say a kind word to him.