Joseph's Coat of Many Colors

^{Genesis 37:3} Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.

^{Genesis 37:4} And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

^{Genesis 37:7} For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.

^{Genesis 37:8} And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.

^{Genesis 37:9} And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.

^{Genesis 37:11} And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.

^{Genesis 37:24} And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

^{Genesis 37:21} And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.

^{Genesis 37:25} And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

^{Genesis 37:28} Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.

^{Genesis 37:35} And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

^{Genesis 37:27} Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content.

^{Genesis 37:34} And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.