Motif
favored child and sibling hostility
favored_child_and_sibling_hostility
A motif of the Sacred Twins and Sibling Pairs family, within the sub-family Favored Child Persecuted by Siblings. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
jewish christian
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Genesis Chapter 35 / Footnotes / Chapter 36 / Chapter 37; lines 2439-2511 confidence: high
Jacob lives in Canaan; Joseph, aged seventeen, tends flock and reports on brothers; Israel loves Joseph more and gives him a many-colored tunic; the brothers hate him.
Joseph receives greater love and a special tunic; his brothers hate and envy him.
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