Jacob's favorite son Joseph dreams of future greatness — twice. His brothers' jealousy turns murderous; they sell him to Ishmaelite traders heading for Egypt and bring his ornamented coat dipped in blood back to their father. Jacob mourns. Meanwhile Joseph arrives in Egypt, sold to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh. This chapter opens the longest continuous narrative in Genesis and has the closest parallel in the Quran (Surah 12).