Annoying Little Brother Sold as a Slave
Jacob arrived back in the land of Canaan and settled there with his family, his tribesmen and his herds in this land where his father before him had lived as an alien. Jacob had a son named Joseph, his youngest child, now seventeen years old. Jacob loved Joseph more than any of his other children because Jacob was the son of his old age, and so he had made a special robe for Joseph that had sleeves. Joseph worked with his older brothers in the pastures and helped them tend his father's flock of sheep and goats. One day Joseph reported to his father that his brothers were lazy and not doing a good job caring for the sheep. The brothers hated Joseph and talked rudely to him because he was his father's favorite and because he had gotten them into trouble with their father. Joseph made their hatred even worse when he told them about a dream he had in which he and his brothers were harvesting grain and tying it into bundles (called sheaves). Joseph's sheaf stood u...