Genesis 37:33

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He recognized it and said, "It is my son's tunic! A wild animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces."

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  • Gen 37:20 : 20 Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a wild animal devoured him. Then we’ll see what becomes of his dreams."
  • Gen 44:28 : 28 'One of them went away from me, and I said, "Surely he has been torn to pieces," and I have not seen him since.'
  • 1 Kgs 13:24 : 24 As he was traveling, a lion met him on the road and killed him. His body was thrown on the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it.
  • 2 Kgs 2:24 : 24 He turned around, saw them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the forest and mauled forty-two of the boys.
  • Prov 14:15 : 15 The simple believe everything, but the prudent carefully consider their steps.
  • John 13:7 : 7 Jesus answered him, 'What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.'

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  • Gen 37:29-32
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    29When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes.

    30He went back to his brothers and said, "The boy is gone! What am I going to do?"

    31Then they took Joseph's tunic, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.

    32They sent the ornate tunic to their father and said, "We found this. Please examine it to see whether it is your son's tunic or not."

  • Gen 37:34
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    34Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son for many days.

  • Gen 37:23
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    23So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe—the ornate robe he was wearing.

  • Gen 37:2-4
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    2This is the account of Jacob: Joseph, a seventeen-year-old youth, was shepherding the flock with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought a bad report about them to their father.

    3Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons because he was the child of his old age, and he made him a robe of many colors.

    4But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all of them, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.

  • Gen 44:28
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    28'One of them went away from me, and I said, "Surely he has been torn to pieces," and I have not seen him since.'

  • Gen 37:20
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    20Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a wild animal devoured him. Then we’ll see what becomes of his dreams."

  • Gen 42:36
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    36Their father Jacob said to them, 'You have deprived me of my children! Joseph is gone; Simeon is gone; and now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is against me!'

  • Gen 37:18
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    18They saw him from a distance, and before he reached them, they conspired to kill him.

  • Gen 44:15
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    15Joseph asked them, "What is this deed you have done? Do you not know that a man like me can certainly practice divination?"

  • Gen 42:8
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    8Although Joseph recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him.

  • Gen 37:27
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    27Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him. After all, he is our brother, our own flesh." His brothers agreed.

  • Gen 50:15
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    15When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, 'What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and repays us for all the evil we did to him?'