◄ Genesis 37:31 ►
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Good News Translation
Then they killed a goat and dipped Joseph's robe in its blood.

New Revised Standard Version
Then they took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a goat, and dipped the robe in the blood.

Contemporary English Version
Joseph's brothers killed a goat and dipped Joseph's fancy coat in its blood.

New American Bible
They took Joseph’s tunic, and after slaughtering a goat, dipped the tunic in its blood.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they took his coat, and dipped it in the blood of a kid, which they had killed:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Genesis 37:30
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