Genesis 37:30-36 ▼

30 and he returns to his brothers and says, “The boy is not, and I—to where am I going?”

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

32 and send the long coat, and they bring [it] to their father, and say, “We have found this; please discern whether it [is] your son’s coat or not.”

33 And he discerns it and says, “My son’s coat! An evil beast has devoured him; torn—Joseph is torn!”

34 And Jacob tears his raiment, and puts sackcloth on his loins, and becomes a mourner for his son many days,

35 and all his sons and all his daughters rise to comfort him, and he refuses to comfort himself, and says, “For I go down to my son mourning, to Sheol,” and his father weeps for him.

36 And the Midianites have sold him to Egypt, to Potiphar, a eunuch of Pharaoh, head of the executioners.