...Joseph is the person specially mentioned at the commencement of this interesting history. " Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age." Most of the Hebrew commentators either render this, " Because he was a wise son:" or consider it to...

...best men. You read in Gen. xxxvii. 3, " Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because ho was the son of his old age ; and he made him a coat of many colours." This was the darling. Jacob's heart was exceedingly set upon him ; his very life was bound up in the life...

...earliest ages, but even the art of dyeing was carried to great perfection. Gen. xxxviii. 3. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he...his old age, and he made him a coat of many colours. The value and distinction attached to such variegated dresses, shows that they were not common, and...

...of Zilpah, his father's wives : and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report. 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he...old age : and he made him a coat of many colours. 4 And when his brethren saw sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me. 10 And he told...

...father, Let it not displease my lord, that I cannot rise up before thee, &c. — Gen. xxxi. 35. Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he...old age ; and he made him a coat of many colours, &c. therefore his brethren hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him, &c. When Jacob supposed...

...him with a dress superior to those worn by his brethren. The sacred historian relates, " Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he...old age ; and he made him a coat of many colours. And when his brethren saw, that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him,...

...a striking proof of one of the most common causes of enmity between brothers and sisters. " Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he...son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors, — " And when his brethren saw that their " father loved Joseph more than all his brethren,...

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