Hebrew Names Version HNV
New International Version NIV
1 Ya`akov lived in the land of his father's travels, in the land of Kana`an.
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Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.
2 This is the history of the generations of Ya`akov. Yosef, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Yosef brought an evil report of them to their father.
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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 Now Yisra'el loved Yosef more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.
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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 His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him.
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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 Yosef dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the 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 hear this dream which I have dreamed:
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He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:
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