Thematic Bible: His father's favorite child
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Joseph » Son of jacob » His father's favorite child
I give you one portion more than your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow.”
He put the maids and their children in front, and Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.
Then all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. And he said, “Surely I will go down to Sheol in mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a varicolored tunic. His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers; and so they hated him and could not speak to him on friendly terms.
So He *came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;