Genesis 37:3
King James VersionSource notes
“Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of colours.”
Context
1And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.
2These the generations of Jacob. Joseph, seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.
3Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of colours.
4And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
5And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.
6And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed: