1 Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had resided, the land of Canaan. 2 This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
Genesis 37:1–2
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