The Antiquities of the Jews, 12.191

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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191Joseph had once a mind to know which of his sons had the best disposition to virtue; and when he sent them severally to those that had then the best reputation for instructing youth, the rest of his children, by reason of their sloth and unwillingness to take pains, returned to him foolish and unlearned.

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