Holy Scripture
Genesis 37:2
A church father on this verse
“Why does he also indicate to us Joseph's age? For you to learn that his youth constituted no obstacle to virtue and for you to have a complete awareness of the young man's obedience to his father and his sympathy for his brothers despite their savagery. Despite his being so well disposed to them, Joseph was unable to…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
2And these are the generations of Jacob. And Joseph was seventeen years old, feeding the sheep of his father with his brethren, being young; with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, the wives of his father; and Joseph brought to Israel their father their evil reproach.
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1And Jacob dwelt in the land where his father sojourned, in the land of Canaan.
— Genesis 37:2 —
3And Jacob loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was to him the son of old age; and he made for him a coat of many colors.
4And his brethren having seen that his father loved him more than all his sons, hated him, and could not speak anything peaceable to him.