CHAP. VIIIL—JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN.

ge Oe lived many years with his uncle
Laban—”’so Mrs. Bayneswent on the next
time that Stephen was studying the Bible pic-
tures—“ and he did not go back to his old
home till he was quite an elderly man, and
the father of twelve sons. Esau had forgiven
him then, but Jacob lived to be reminded of his
old fault by the deceitful treatment he met
with from his own children.

“Of all his sons Jacob best loved Joseph,
who was the youngest but one, and very
good; and he made this son a coat of many
colours. The other brothers were jealous of
Joseph, more especially when he dreamed
some curious dreams, that seemed to them a
sign that he should rule over them all some
day.

“At last, when Joseph was almost a man,
it happened that his ten elder brothers were
feeding their sheep at some little distance