Genesis 37:31

World English Bible (2000)

They took Joseph's coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 37:23 : 23 It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;
  • Gen 37:3 : 3 Now 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.
  • Prov 28:13 : 13 He who conceals his sins doesn't prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

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  • Gen 37:32-34
    3 verses
    88%

    32 They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, "We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son's coat or not."

    33 He recognized it, and said, "It is my son's coat. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces."

    34 Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

  • Gen 37:22-24
    3 verses
    84%

    22 Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him"--that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.

    23 It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;

    24 and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.

  • Gen 37:2-5
    4 verses
    78%

    2 This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.

    3 Now 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.

    4 His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him.

    5 Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.

  • Gen 37:26-30
    5 verses
    77%

    26 Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

    27 Come, and let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh." His brothers listened to him.

    28 Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.

    29 Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn't in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

    30 He returned to his brothers, and said, "The child is no more; and I, where will I go?"

  • Gen 37:17-20
    4 verses
    75%

    17 The man said, "They have left here, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.

    18 They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

    19 They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes.

    20 Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."

  • Gen 27:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15 Rebekah took the good clothes of Esau, her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.

    16 She put the skins of the young goats on his hands, and on the smooth of his neck.

  • Gen 42:22
    72%

    22 Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required."

  • Gen 37:12
    71%

    12 His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.

  • Gen 27:9
    71%

    9 Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.

  • Gen 50:15
    70%

    15 When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all of the evil which we did to him."

  • 2 Chr 35:11
    70%

    11 They killed the Passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood which they received] of their hand, and the Levites flayed them.

  • Gen 44:2
    70%

    2 Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, with his grain money." He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.

  • Gen 50:17
    70%

    17 'You shall tell Joseph, "Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you."' Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

  • Gen 45:4
    69%

    4 Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

  • Lev 8:19
    69%

    19 He killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood around on the altar.