Thematic Bible: His father's favorite child
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Joseph » Son of jacob » His father's favorite child
Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.
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. And his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren; and they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
So he cometh to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph:
For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph's:)