“And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him;”
So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe — the ornate robe he was wearing. The first act against Joseph is the stripping of the coat — the visible sign of the father's favoritism. The removal of the coat is the brothers' first act of symbolic reversal: they are taking back what the father gave. The application: the things that mark us as preferred in someone else's eyes are often the things that make us targets.
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