Is It a Snitch or a Favourite?

The story is exploring all sorts of different possibilities, including ones that are very violent and catastrophic and malevolent. The hint here is that, well, you should be multidimensional. These are the generations of jacob. So it's an intimation of what joseph is like. And what we're seeing with all these patriarchal figures is the continual realization of the ideal person,. You could think about it as successive approximations of the ideal person....