Now you might think that, having himself suffered under a father who played favorites – Isaac always liked Esau better – Jacob would have tried to be different. But it doesn’t usually work that way. If anything, Jacob was worse than Isaac. He had loved Rachel more than any of his other wives, so he loved Rachel’s two sons more than his other children. Benjamin was just a baby, but Rachel’s first son, Joseph, was old enough to know he was his daddy’s favorite and not quite old enough to know he should keep that to himself. In short, he was a precocious Daddy’s-boy snot-nosed brat, and when Jacob gave Joseph a special coat, nicer than anything he’d ever given his other children, Joseph made a point of wearing it whenever they were around. And then there were the dreams.
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