His older brothers saw that Jacob, their father, “loved [Joseph] more than all his brothers. ” Consequently, “they began to hate him, and they were not able to speak peacefully to him. ”
אחיו הגדולים שמו לב שיעקב אביהם, ’ אוהב אותו מכל אחיו ’, ומשום כך ’ שנאו אותו ולא יכלו לדברו שלום ’ (‏ בראשית ל ” ז: 4‏).