Favoritism

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• Joseph's Coat of Many Colors Aug 14, 2025

  

  In the rolling hills of Canaan, where the great patriarch Jacob lived with his twelve sons, there was one boy who held a special place in his father’s heart. Joseph was seventeen years old, the eleventh son of Jacob, but he was the first son born to Rachel, the wife Jacob had loved most dearly.

  Jacob’s love for Joseph was deeper and more visible than his love for any of his other children. Perhaps it was because Joseph had been born to him in his old age, when he had thought his days of fathering children were over. Perhaps it was because Joseph reminded him so much of his beloved Rachel, who had died giving birth to Benjamin. Or perhaps it was simply because Joseph possessed a gentle spirit and an eager mind that delighted his father’s heart.