Genesis 37
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Genesis 37:29-35

29Now Reuben returned to the pit, and behold, Joseph was not in the pit; so he 1tore his garments.

30He returned to his brothers and said, “2The boy is not there; as for me, where am I to go?”

31So 3they took Joseph’s tunic, and slaughtered a male goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood;

32and they sent the 4multicolored tunic and brought it to their father and said, “We found this; please 5examine it to see whether it is your son’s tunic or not.”

33Then he 6examined it and said, “It is my son’s tunic. 7A vicious animal has devoured him; 8Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”

34So Jacob 9tore his clothes, and put on a sackcloth undergarment over his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

35Then all his sons and all his daughters got up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. And he said, “Surely I will 10go down to Sheol in mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.

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Notes

  1. 1. Genesis 37:29 Gen 37:34; 44:13 ↩
  2. 2. Genesis 37:30 Gen 42:13, 36 ↩
  3. 3. Genesis 37:31 Gen 37:3, 23 ↩
  4. 4. Genesis 37:32 Or full-length tunic ↩
  5. 5. Genesis 37:32 Or recognize ↩
  6. 6. Genesis 37:33 Or recognized ↩
  7. 7. Genesis 37:33 Gen 37:20 ↩
  8. 8. Genesis 37:33 Gen 44:28 ↩
  9. 9. Genesis 37:34 Gen 37:29 ↩
  10. 10. Genesis 37:35 Gen 25:8; 35:29; 42:38; 44:29, 31 ↩

Commentaries on Genesis 37

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