JOSEPH AND HIS COAT 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 brothers envied him.... And when they saw him afar off, they conspired against him to slay him. And now they said to one another, “Behold, this dreamer cometh. Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we shall say, some evil beast hath devoured him; and we shall see what will become of his dreams” OLD TESTAMENT, GENESIS 37:3—20
