Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan. This is the account of Jacob. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought his father a bad report about them. If there was ever a man for all seasons, it was Joseph, the favored son of the patriarch Jacob, whose story begins in the thirty-seventh chapter of Genesis. Joseph’s life