|
31 And they toke Iosephes coate, and kylled a kyd, and dipped the coate in the blood. 32 And they sent that partie coloured coate, and caused it to be brought vnto their father, and sayde: This haue we founde, see whether it be thy sonnes coate, or no. 33 And he knewe it, saying: It is my sonnes coate, a naughtie beast hath deuoured hym, Ioseph is without doubt rent in peeces. 34 And Iacob rent his clothes, & put sackcloth about his loynes, and mourned for his sonne a long season. 35 But all his sonnes & all his daughters rose vp to comfort hym: neuerthelesse he woulde not be comforted, but sayde, I wyll go downe into the graue vnto my sonne, mournyng: And thus his father wept for hym. 36 And the Madianites solde hym in Egypt vnto Putiphar, chiefe officer of Pharaos, and his chiefe stewarde. Genesis 37:31-36, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
|
