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Genesis 37:3
Now Israel loved Joseph 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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Genesis 37:3 in other translations
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
Now 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.
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a tunic of many colors.
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In context
1 And Jacob dwelt in the land in which his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.
2 These [are] the generations of Jacob. Joseph [being] seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren, and the lad [was] with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought to his father their evil report.
3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he [was] the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of [many] colors.
4 And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.
5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told [it] to his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.
6 And he said to them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:
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