Bible Stories: Joseph
After Isacc and Rebekah married, they had a son and they called him Jacob. When Jacob got married he had twelve sons but of them all Joseph was his favourite. He even made him a special coat, so beautiful and it was made up of many colours. However, Joseph’s brothers were very angry and jealous that he should be singled out for all this attention.
One day Jacob sent Joseph out to visit his brothers who were working in the fields far from home. When Joseph found his brothers they took his beautiful coat from him and sold him to a band of traders who were going to Egypt.
Then the brothers put some goat’s blood on the coat and made several holes in it. They took it home to their father, “It is Joseph’s coat,” Jacob said. “He must have been killed by wild animals.” Jacob was very sad. He thought that he would never see his son again because he did not know that Joseph was alive and that someday they would be together again.