Genesis 37:33

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He recognized it and exclaimed,“It is my son’s tunic! A wild animal has eaten him! Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”

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  • Gen 37:20 : 20 Come now, let’s kill him, throw him into one of the cisterns, and then say that a wild animal ate him. Then we’ll see how his dreams turn out!”
  • Gen 44:28 : 28 The first disappeared and I said,“He has surely been torn to pieces.” I have not seen him since.
  • 1 Kgs 13:24 : 24 So the prophet from Judah travelled on. Then a lion attacked him on the road and killed him.There was his body lying on the road, with the donkey standing next to it, and the lion just standing there by the body.
  • 2 Kgs 2:24 : 24 When he turned around and saw them, he called God’s judgment down on them. Two female bears came out of the woods and ripped forty-two of the boys to pieces.
  • Prov 14:15 : 15 A naive person will believe anything, but the shrewd person discerns his steps.
  • John 13:7 : 7 Jesus replied,“You do not understand what I am doing now, but you will understand after these things.”

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  • Gen 37:29-32
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    29Later Reuben returned to the cistern to find that Joseph was not in it! He tore his clothes,

    30returned to his brothers, and said,“The boy isn’t there! And I, where can I go?”

    31So they took Joseph’s tunic, killed a young goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.

    32Then they brought the special tunic to their father and said,“We found this. Determine now whether it is your son’s tunic or not.”

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

  • Gen 37:23
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    23When Joseph reached his brothers, they stripped him of his tunic, the special tunic that he wore.

  • Gen 37:2-4
    3 verses
    76%

    2This is the account of Jacob.Joseph, his seventeen-year-old son, was taking care of the flocks with his brothers. Now he was a youngster working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.

    3Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons because he was a son born to him late in life, and he made a special tunic for him.

    4When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated Joseph and were not able to speak to him kindly.

  • Gen 44:28
    74%

    28The first disappeared and I said,“He has surely been torn to pieces.” I have not seen him since.

  • Gen 37:20
    73%

    20Come now, let’s kill him, throw him into one of the cisterns, and then say that a wild animal ate him. Then we’ll see how his dreams turn out!”

  • Gen 42:36
    72%

    36Their father Jacob said to them,“You are making me childless! Joseph is gone. Simeon is gone. And now you want to take Benjamin! Everything is against me.”

  • Gen 37:18
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    18Now Joseph’s brothers saw him from a distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.

  • Gen 44:15
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    15Joseph said to them,“What did you think you were doing? Don’t you know that a man like me can find out things like this by divination?”

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

  • Gen 37:27
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    27Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, but let’s not lay a hand on him, for 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 bears a grudge and wants to repay us in full for all the harm we did to him?”