¹⁶ Ðáp rằng: Tôi tìm các anh tôi. Xin hãy chỉ giùm tôi họ chăn bầy chiên nơi nào.

³⁶ Gia-cốp, cha họ bèn nói rằng: Bay làm mất các con tao; Giô-sép đã mất biệt, Si-mê-ôn cũng mất biệt; mà bây giờ, lại muốn dẫn Bê-gia-min đi nữa sao! Các nông nỗi nầy đều đổ lại cho tao hết!

¹ Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the land of Canaan.

² This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, 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. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.

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.