Genesis 37:31
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And they took his coat, and dipped it in the blood of a kid, which they had killed:

Genesis 37:3,23 Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in his old age: and he made him a coat of divers colours. . . .

Proverbs 28:13 He that hideth his sins, shall not prosper: but he that shall confess, and forsake them, shall obtain mercy.

Context
Jacob Mourns Joseph
31And they took his coat, and dipped it in the blood of a kid, which they had killed:32Sending some to carry it to their father, and to say: This we have found: see whether it be thy son's coat, or not.…
Cross References
Genesis 37:3
Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in his old age: and he made him a coat of divers colours.

Genesis 37:23
And as soon as he came to his brethren, they forthwith stript him of his outside coat, that was of divers colours:

Genesis 37:32
Sending some to carry it to their father, and to say: This we have found: see whether it be thy son's coat, or not.

Genesis 44:28
One went out, and you said: A beast devoured him; and hitherto he appeareth not.

Genesis 45:26
And they told him, saying: Joseph, thy son, is living; and he is ruler in all the land of Egypt. Which when Jacob heard, he awaked as it were out of a deep sleep, yet did not believe them.

Lexicon
Then they took
וַיִּקְח֖וּ (way·yiq·ḥū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3947: To take

Joseph’s
יוֹסֵ֑ף (yō·w·sêp̄)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3130: Joseph -- 'he increases', a son of Jacob, also the name of several Israelites

robe,
כְּתֹ֣נֶת (kə·ṯō·neṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3801: A shirt

slaughtered
וַֽיִּשְׁחֲטוּ֙ (way·yiš·ḥă·ṭū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7819: To slaughter, beat

a young goat,
שְׂעִ֣יר (śə·‘îr)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 8163: Shaggy, a he-goat, a faun

and dipped
וַיִּטְבְּל֥וּ (way·yiṭ·bə·lū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2881: To dip, to immerse

the robe
הַכֻּתֹּ֖נֶת (hak·kut·tō·neṯ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3801: A shirt

in its blood.
בַּדָּֽם׃ (bad·dām)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1818: Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed


Additional Translations
Then they took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood.And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;

And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a he-goat, and dipped the coat in the blood;

And having taken the coat of Joseph, they slew a kid of the goats, and stained the coat with the blood.

And they took Joseph's vest, and slaughtered a buck of the goats, and dipped the vest in the blood;

And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a he-goat, and dipped the coat in the blood;

And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood:

They took Joseph's coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.

And they take the coat of Joseph, and slaughter a kid of the goats, and dip the coat in the blood,
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