Bible Verses About Joseph: Son of Jacob: His Father's Favorite Child

And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.

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.

And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph's:)

Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.