They took the tunic of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. Examine it, now, and see if it is your son’s tunic or not.”
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They took the tunic of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. Examine it, now, and see if it is your son’s tunic or not.”
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And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son’s coat or no.
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and they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said: 'This have we found. Know now whether it is thy son's coat or not.'
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Passages linked to Genesis 37:32 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Luke 15:30 But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’
- Genesis 37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a tunic of many colors.
- Genesis 44:20-23 We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’ You said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’ We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’ You said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.’
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain To wit, the messengers which were sent.
To wit, the messengers which were sent.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 37:32 And they sent the coat of [many]…
Gen 37:32 And they sent the coat of [many] colours, and they brought [it] to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it [be] thy son’s coat or no.
Ver. 32. Know now whether it be thy son’s coat.] One Philip, bishop of Beauvieu, in France, in the time of our Richard I, being a martial man, and much annoying our borders, was by King Richard in a skirmish happily taken, and put in prison. The bishop hereupon complained to the Pope, who wrote in the behalf of his son, as an ecclesiastical person, &c. The king sent to the Pope the armour he was taken in, with these words engraven thereon, "Know whether this be thy son’s coat, or not." Which the Pope viewing, sware it was rather the coat of a son of Mars, than a son of the Church; and so bade the king use his pleasure. {a}
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{a} Heyl., Geog., p. 108.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain brought it by a messenger whom they sent: men…
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brought it by a messenger whom they sent: men are commonly said to do what they cause others to do.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he knew it, and said, it is my…
And he knew it, and said, it is my son's coat,.... He took it, and examined it, and was soon convinced, and well assured it was his son's coat; read the words without the supplement "it is", and the pathos will appear the more, "my son's coat!" and think with what a beating heart, with what trembling limbs, with what wringing of hands, with what flowing eyes, and faultering speech, he spoke these words, and what follow:
an evil beast hath devoured him; this was natural to conclude from the condition the coat was in, and from the country he was sent into, which abounded with wild beasts, and was the very thing Joseph's brethren contrived to say themselves; and in this view they wished and hoped the affair would be considered, and so their wickedness concealed:
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Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces; or "in rending is rent" (d); he is most certainly rent in pieces, there is no question to be made of it; it is plain, and it must be the case.
(d) "discerpendo discerptus est"; Drusius, Schmidt.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 32. Sent the coat of many colours -…
Verse 32. Sent the coat of many colours - to their father] What deliberate cruelty to torture the feelings of their aged father, and thus harrow up his soul!
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 32. Thy son’s coat — Not our brother’s! Every…
32. Thy son’s coat — Not our brother’s! Every word of theirs in this dark pretext is studiously cruel.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (32) They brought it.—Heb., they caused it to go,…
(32) They brought it.—Heb., they caused it to go, that is, sent it by the hand of a messenger. They were unwilling to see the first burst of their father’s agony.
And said.—These were the words that were to be spoken by the messenger who was charged to bear the coat to Jacob.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 37:32 your son: In their cold hatred, the brothers…
37:32 your son: In their cold hatred, the brothers did not refer to Joseph by name or acknowledge him as their brother (see 21:10).
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