His father's favorite child
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--Genesis--

And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost. (33:2)

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he [was] the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of [many] colours. (37:3)

And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him. (37:4)

And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him. (37:35)

Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow. (48:22)

--1 Chronicles--

For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him [came] the chief ruler; but the birthright [was] Joseph's:) (5:2)

--John--

Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. (4:5)

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