GOD'S WORD Translation GW
New International Version NIV
1 Jacob continued to live in the land of Canaan, where his father had lived.
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Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.
2 This is the account of Jacob and his descendants. Joseph was a seventeen-year-old young man. He took care of the flocks with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph told his father about the bad things his brothers were doing.
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This is the account of Jacob’s family line. 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 their father a bad report about them.
3 Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons because Joseph had been born in Israel's old age. So he made Joseph a special robe with long sleeves.
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Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate robe for him.
4 Joseph's brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them. They hated Joseph and couldn't speak to him on friendly terms.
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When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
5 Joseph had a dream and when he told his brothers, they hated him even more.
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Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more.
6 He said to them, "Please listen to the dream I had.
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He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:
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