²And these are his generations: Joseph, when he was sixteen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren, being but a boy: and he was with the sons of Bala and of Zelpha his father’s wives: and he accused his brethren to his father of a most wicked crime.

³Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in his old age: and he made him a coat of divers colours.

⁴And his brethren seeing that he was loved by his father, more than all his sons, hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.

⁵Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more.

⁶And he said to them: Hear my dream which I dreamed.

⁷I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose as it were, and stood, and your sheaves standing about bowed down before my sheaf.

⁸His brethren answered: Shalt thou be our king? or shall we be subject to thy dominion? Therefore this matter of his dreams and words ministered nourishment to their envy and hatred.

⁹He dreamed also another dream, which he told his brethren, saying: I saw in a dream, as it were the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars worshipping me.

¹⁰And when he had told this to his father, and brethren, his father rebuked him and said: What meaneth this dream that thou hast dreamed? shall I and thy mother, and thy brethren worship thee upon the earth?

¹¹His brethren therefore envied him: but his father considered the thing with himself.

¹²And when his brethren abode in Sichem, feeding their father’s flocks,

¹³Israel said to him: Thy brethren feed the sheep in Sichem: come, I will send thee to them. And when he answered:

¹⁴I am ready: he said to him: Go, and see if all things be well with thy brethren, and the cattle: and bring me word again what is doing. So being sent from the vale of Hebron, he came to Sichem:

¹⁵And a man found him there wandering in the field, and asked what he sought.

¹⁶But he answered: I seek my brethren, tell me where they feed the flocks.

¹⁷And the man said to him: They are departed from this place: for I heard them say: Let us go to Dothain. And Joseph went forward after his brethren, and found them in Dothain.

¹⁸And when they saw him afar off, before he came nigh them, they thought to kill him:

¹⁹And said one to another: Behold the dreamer cometh.

²⁰Come, let us kill him, and cast him into some old pit: and we will say: Some evil beast hath devoured him: and then it shall appear what his dreams avail him:

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