Jesse Tree: The Story of Joseph's Coat and His Brothers' Jealousy

Jacob, who dreamed of the ladder, had twelve sons; he loved his son Joseph in a special way "because he was the son of his old age," so he had a long robe made for him.  Joseph's brothers were jealous of  his robe, and when Joseph began telling them about his own dreams of glory, "They hated him even more because of his dreams and his words."  One day while all the brothers were tending their father's flock of sheep, the older brothers turned against Joseph and sold him to a caravan headed to Egypt, dipped his robe in goat's blood, and told their father that Joseph had been killed by wild animals.  (Actually, Joseph was later sold to an officer of Pharoah in Egypt, where "he became a successful man." Long years later, the story had a happy ending. Jacob even got to see Joseph again and to know that his son was still alive.)

Genesis 37:1-36

Potential ornament to make for the Jesse Tree: a many-colored robe