1Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had resided, the land of Canaan.
2This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
3Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons, because Joseph had been born to him in his old age; so he made him a robe of many colors. 4When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
“He was loved and hated, favored and abused, tempted and trusted, exalted and abased. Yet at no point in the one-hundred-and-ten-year life of Joseph did he ever seem to get his eyes off God or cease to trust him. Adversity did not harden his character. Prosperity did not ruin him. He was the same in private as in public. He was a truly great man.” (Boice)
Joseph tattletales on two of his brothers that they were acting badly.
“so he made him a robe of many colors.” Jacob shows favoritism to Joseph and was stating with the robe he would inherit the birthright. A man didn’t wear a robe like this while doing manual labor, a man wore a robe like this watching other men doing manual labor.
This was one messed up family!
Do you show favoritism in your family?
Blessings, David
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