Joseph had two dreams that suggest he will rule over his brothers and his entire family. These dreams and the favoritism shown by his father, Jacob, symbolized by the coat of many colors he made for Jospeh, caused his brothers to despise and envy him. They developed a plan, first, to kill him, then to leave him in a pit, finally to sell him to traders who took him to Egypt where he was sold to the captain of Pharaoh's guard.