Rung 1 of 8
The story
What happens, plainly.
Yaakov settles in Canaan and loves Yosef more than his other sons, and makes him a coat of many colors. Yosef dreams that his brothers' sheaves bow to his sheaf, and then that the sun, the moon and eleven stars bow to him, and his brothers hate him for it. When he comes to find them in the fields, they strip off his coat, throw him into an empty pit, and sell him to traders bound for Egypt; they dip the coat in goat's blood, and Yaakov mourns him as dead. Yehudah leaves his brothers, loses two sons, and is tricked by his widowed daughter-in-law Tamar, who bears him twins, Peretz and Zerach. In Egypt Yosef rises in Potiphar's house, refuses Potiphar's wife, and is thrown into prison on her word. There he reads the dreams of Pharaoh's cupbearer and baker; the cupbearer is restored to his post and forgets him.