They took Joseph’s coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.
Parallel translations
- KJV And they took Joseph’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;
- BSB Then they took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood.
- NKJV So they took Joseph’s tunic, killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the tunic in the blood.
- NASB So they took Joseph’s tunic, and slaughtered a male goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood;
- NLT Then the brothers killed a young goat and dipped Joseph’s robe in its blood.
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Cross-references · 3
- Gen 37:23When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;
- Prov 28:13He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
- Gen 37:3Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.
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