1 Heel-Grabber (Jacob) dwelt in the land where his father was a stranger, in the land of Humbled One (Canaan).
2 These are the generations of Heel-Grabber (Jacob). When Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) was seventeen years old, he was feeding the flock with his brothers, the sons of Troubled (Bilhah), the sons of A Trickling (Zilpah), his father's wives, and Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) brought an evil report of them to his father.
3 Now God Prevails (Israel) loved Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colors.
4 When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.
5 Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) then dreamed a dream, and he told his brothers about it, and they hated him even yet the more.
6 He said to them, “Listen to this dream which I dreamed:
7 We were binding sheaves in the field, and my sheaf arose, and stood upright; and your sheaves stood around mine, and bowed to my sheaf.”
8 His brothers said to him, “So you will reign over us? You think you will have dominion over us?” And they hated him even more for his dreams, and for his words.
9 Then he dreamed another dream, and told it to his brothers, saying, “I have dreamed more about this. In this dream, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars bowed down to me.”
10 And he told this to his father, and to his brothers: and his father rebuked him saying to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers come to bow down ourselves to the earth?”
11 His brothers envied him; but his father seriously considered the dream.
12 Then his brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shoulder (Shechem).
13 God Prevails (Israel) said to Yehovah Will Add (Joseph), “Aren't your brothers feeding the flock in Shoulder (Shechem)? Come, and I will send you to them.” Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) answered, “Here I am.”
14 He said to him, “Please go see how your brothers and the flock are doing. Then come back and report to me.” So he sent him out of the vale of Association (Hebron), and he came to Shoulder (Shechem).
15 A certain man found him when he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, “What are you looking for?”
16 He said, “I'm looking for my brothers. Do you know where they feed their flocks?”
17 The man said, “They've left here. I heard them say, Let's go to Two Wells (Dothan).” So Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) went after his brethren, and found them in Two Wells (Dothan).
18 When they saw him afar off, even before he came near them, they conspired against him to slay him.
19 They said one to another, “Here comes the dreamer!
20 “Let's kill him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast devoured him. Then shall see what will become of his dreams.”
21 But, Behold a Son (Reuben) heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands, saying, “Let's not kill him.”
22 Behold a Son (Reuben) continued, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but don't hurt him.” so he could get him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.
23 When Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) came to his brothers, they stripped Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) of his coat, the coat of many colors that he was wearing.
24 Then they took him, and cast him into a pit. The pit was empty, there was no water in it.
25 And they sat down to eat bread: and they looked, and saw, a company of the tribe of God Will Hear (Ishmaeelites) coming from Rocky Region (Gilead) with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, on their way down to Double Straights (Egypt).
26 So Praised (Judah) said to his brethren, “What profit is there if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?
27 Come, let us sell him to the tribe of God Will Hear (Ishmaeelites), and not put our hand on him. After all, he is our brother and our flesh.” And his brothers agreed.
28 Then the Strifers (Midianites), who were merchantmen, passed by. They drew Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) out of the pit, and sold Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) to the tribe of God Will Hear (Ishmaeelites) for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) into Double Straights (Egypt).
29 When Behold a Son (Reuben) returned to the pit, Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) was not in the pit; and he tore his clothes.
30 He returned to his brothers, and said, “The boy is not there! How can I go back?”
31 So they took Yehovah Will Add (Joseph)'s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;
32 And they sent the coat of many colors to their father, and said, “We found this. Isn't it your son's coat?”
33 He acknowledged it, saying, “It is my son's coat. An evil beast has devoured him; Yehovah Will Add (Joseph) is without doubt torn to pieces.”
34 Heel-Grabber (Jacob) tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
35 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, “I will go down to the grave mourning for my son.” Thus his father wept for him.
36 The Strifers (Midianites) sold him in Double Straights (Egypt) to Belonging to the Sun (Potiphar), an officer of the Great House (Pharaoh)'s, and captain of the guard.
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