Genesis 37:32
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.”
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
31And they take the coat of Joseph, and slaughter a kid of the goats, and dip the coat in the blood,
33And he discerns it and says, “My son’s coat! An evil beast has devoured him; torn—Joseph is torn!”
Cross References
Genesis 38:25She is brought out, and she has sent to her husband’s father, saying, “To a man whose these [are], I [am] pregnant”; and she says, “Please discern whose these [are]—the seal, and the ribbons, and the staff.”
Luke 15:30but when your son—this one who devoured your living with prostitutes—came, you killed to him the fatted calf.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 37:32-36
31 And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood; 32 And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son's coat or no. 33 And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces. 34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days. 35 And all his sons and all his daughters… Read the whole commentary →