Genesis 37:32
Good News Translation
They took the robe to their father and said, "We found this. Does it belong to your son?"

New Revised Standard Version
They had the long robe with sleeves taken to their father, and they said, “This we have found; see now whether it is your son’s robe or not.”

Contemporary English Version
After this, they took the coat to their father and said, "We found this! Look at it carefully and see if it belongs to your son."

New American Bible
Then they sent someone to bring the long ornamented tunic to their father, with the message: “We found this. See whether it is your son’s tunic or not.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Sending some to carry it to their father, and to say: This we have found: see whether it be thy son's coat, or not.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Sending some to carry it to their father, and to say: This we have found: see whether it be thy son's coat, or not.

thy son's.

Genesis 37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in his old age: and he made him a coat of divers colours.

Genesis 44:20-23 And we answered thee, my lord: We have a father an old man, and a young boy, that was born in his old age; whose brother by the mother is dead; and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him tenderly. . . .

Luke 15:30 But as soon as this thy son is come, who hath devoured his substance with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

Context
Jacob Mourns Joseph
31And they took his coat, and dipped it in the blood of a kid, which they had killed: 32Sending some to carry it to their father, and to say: This we have found: see whether it be thy son's coat, or not.33And the father acknowledging it, said: It is my son's coat, an evil wild beast hath eaten him, a beast hath devoured Joseph.…
Cross References
Genesis 37:3
Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in his old age: and he made him a coat of divers colours.

Genesis 37:20
Come, let us kill him, and cast him into some old pit: and we will say: Some evil beast hath devoured him: and then it shall appear what his dreams avail him:

Genesis 37:31
And they took his coat, and dipped it in the blood of a kid, which they had killed:

Genesis 37:33
And the father acknowledging it, said: It is my son's coat, an evil wild beast hath eaten him, a beast hath devoured Joseph.

Genesis 38:25
But when she was led to execution, she sent to her father in law, saying: By the man, to whom these things belong, I am with child. See whose ring, and bracelet, and staff this is.

Genesis 37:31
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