| Verse | Translation | Text |
| Ge 37:31 | Strong Concordance | And they took [03947] Joseph's [03130] coat [03801], and killed [07819] a kid [08163] of the goats [05795], and dipped [02881] the coat [03801] in the blood [01818]; |
| King James | And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood; |
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| they took Joseph's coat--The commission of one sin necessarily leads to another to conceal it; and the scheme of deception which the sons of Jacob planned and practised on their aged father was a necessary consequence of the atrocious crime they had perpetrated. What a wonder that their cruel sneer, "thy son's coat," and their forced efforts to comfort him, did not awaken suspicion! But extreme grief, like every other passion, is blind, and Jacob, great as his affliction was, did allow himself to indulge his sorrow more than became one who believed in the government of a supreme and all-wise Disposer. |