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Joseph's father Jacob had twelve sons. He loved Joseph most of all and gave him a long coat of many colors. In those days bright dyes were costly, so it was a rare gift.
Joseph told two dreams. In one, bundles of grain bowed to his bundle. In the other, the sun, the moon and eleven stars bowed down to him. His brothers were more jealous than ever.
At Dothan the brothers took off his coat and let him down into a dry well. Then traders came by, and they sold Joseph for twenty pieces of silver.
The traders took him far away to Egypt. The Bible tells us God was with Joseph, even far from home.