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Joseph's Coat Wasn't About Colours — It Was About Command
Everyone knows Joseph's coat of many colours, except the Bible never says it. The Hebrew phrase, ketonet passim, appears in only one other place, on the king's virgin daughters, and it names a royal robe reaching to the hands and feet that made manual work impossible. Jacob wasn't spoiling a favourite son; he was commissioning an administrator over a household of thousands, under the covenant charge of Genesis 18:19 to command his children in justice and judgment. God forms rulers in the home: faithful over four brothers first, then faithful over all of Egypt.
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