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CHAP. XXXVII.

ND Iacob dwelt in the land of Chanaan, wherin his father seiourned. And these are his generations: Ioseph when he was sixteen yeares old, fed the flock with his brethren being yet a boy: and he was with the sonnes of Bala and Zelpha his fathers wiues: and he accused his brethren to his father of a most wicked crime. And Israel loued Ioseph aboue al his sonnes, because he had begotten him ″ in his old age: and he made him a coate of diuers colours. And his brethren seeing that he was loued of his father more then al his sonnes, they hated him, neither could they speake any thing to him peaceably. It chanced also that he reported to his brethren a dreame that he had seen: which occasion was the seed of greater hatred. And he said to them: Heare my dreame which I haue seen: I thought we bound sheaues in the field: and my sheafe arose as it were, and stood, and your sheaues standing about did adore my sheafe. His brethren answered: What? shalt thou be our King? or shal we be subiect to thy dominion? This occasion of his dreames and wordes ministred nourishment to the enuie and hatred. He saw also another dreame, which telling his brethren, he said: I saw in a dreame, as it were the sunne, and the moone, and eleuen starres adore me. Which when he had reported to his father and brethren, his father rebuked him, and said: What meaneth this dreame that thou hast seen? Why, shal I and thy mother, and thy brethren adore thee vpon the earth? His brethren therfore enuyed him: but his father considered the thing with himselfe. And when his brethren abode in Sichem, feeding their fathers flockes, Israel said to him: Thy brethren feed sheep in Sichem: come, I wil send thee to them. Who answering, I am readie; he said to him: Goe, and see if al things be wel with thy brethren and the sheep, and bring me word againe what they doe. Being sent therfore from the Vale of Hebron, he came to Sichem: and a man found him there wandring in the field, and asked what he sought. But he answered: I seeke my brethren, shew me where they feed the flockes. And the Rh