Which book of the Old Testament contains the story of Joseph and his coat of many colours?
Coat of many colors Coat of many colors In the Hebrew Bible, the coat of many colors ( "ketonet passim") is the name for the garment that Joseph owned, which was given to him by his father, Jacob. According to the King James Version, Genesis 37:3 reads, "Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours." The Septuagint translation of the passage uses the word ("poikilos"), which indicates "many colored"; the Jewish Publication Society of America Version also employs the phrase "coat of many colors". On
The Story of Joseph and His Brethren Joseph with a "long coat of many colors". Israel's favoritism toward Joseph caused his half brothers to hate him, and when Joseph was seventeen years old he had two dreams that made his brothers plot his demise. In the first dream, Joseph and his brothers gathered bundles of grain. Then, all of the grain bundles that had been prepared by the brothers gathered around Joseph's bundle and bowed down to it. In the second dream, the sun (father), the moon (mother) and eleven stars (brothers) bowed down to Joseph himself. When he told these two dreams to his brothers, they