Genesis 37:30
and he returns to his brothers and says, “The boy is not, and I—to where am I going?”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go?
In Context
29And Reuben returns to the pit, and behold, Joseph is not in the pit, and he tears his garments,
31And they take the coat of Joseph, and slaughter a kid of the goats, and dip the coat in the blood,
Cross References
Genesis 37:20and now, come, and we slay him, and cast him into one of the pits, and have said, An evil beast has devoured him; and we see what his dreams are.”
Genesis 42:32we [are] twelve brothers, sons of our father, one is not, and the young one [is] today with our father in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 42:36and their father Jacob says to them, “You have bereaved me; Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and Benjamin you take—all these [things] have been against me.”
Matthew Henry on Genesis 37:24-31
23 And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him; 24 And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it. 25 And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt. 26 And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if… Read the whole commentary →