3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was ch. 44:20the son of his old age. And he made him ver. 23, 32a robe of many colors.37:3 See Septuagint, Vulgate; or (with Syriac) a robe with long sleeves. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain; also verses 23, 324 But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.