Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
So they took Joseph's coat, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.
New American Standard Bible
So
King James Version
And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;
Holman Bible
So they took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood.
A Conservative Version
And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a he-goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.
American Standard Version
And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a he-goat, and dipped the coat in the blood;
Amplified
Then they took Joseph’s tunic, slaughtered a male goat and dipped the tunic in the blood;
Bible in Basic English
Then they took Joseph's coat, and put on it some of the blood from a young goat which they had put to death,
Darby Translation
And they took Joseph's vest, and slaughtered a buck of the goats, and dipped the vest in the blood;
Julia Smith Translation
And they will take Joseph's tunic, and will slaughter a he-goat of the goats, and will dip the tunic in the blood.
King James 2000
And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;
Lexham Expanded Bible
Then they took the robe of Joseph and slaughtered a goat, and dipped the robe in the blood.
Modern King James verseion
And they took Joseph's tunic, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the tunic in the blood.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And they took Joseph's coat and killed a goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.
NET Bible
So they took Joseph's tunic, killed a young goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.
New Heart English Bible
They took Joseph's coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.
The Emphasized Bible
And they took Joseph's tunic, - and slaughtered a buck of the goats, and dipped the tunic in the blood;
Webster
And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood:
World English Bible
They took Joseph's coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.
Youngs Literal Translation
And they take the coat of Joseph, and slaughter a kid of the goats, and dip the coat in the blood,
Themes
Bible stories for children » The boy captive who became prime minister
Bible stories for children » The beautiful coat
Deceit » Exemplified » Joseph's brethren
Goat » The young of » Called kids
Ishmaelites » Merchants of, buy joseph
Joseph » Son of jacob » Is falsely reported to his father as killed by wild beasts
Interlinear
Laqach
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 37:31
Verse Info
Context Readings
Joseph Sold Into Slavery
30 returned to his brothers, and shouted, "He's not there! Now what? Where am I to go?" 31 So they took Joseph's coat, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the coat in the blood. 32 Then they stretched out the richly-embroidered tunic to dry, and brought it to their father. "We've found this," they reported. "Look at it and see if this is or isn't your son's tunic."
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Cross References
Genesis 37:23
As it was, when Joseph arrived where his brothers were, they stripped off the tunic that Jacob had given him that is, the richly-embroidered tunic that he was wearing.
Genesis 37:3
When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was helping his brothers tend their flocks. He was a young man at that time, as were the children of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. But Joseph would come back and tell his father that his brothers were doing bad things. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his brothers, since he was born to him in his old age, so he had made a richly-embroidered tunic for him.
Proverbs 28:13
Whoever hides his transgressions will not succeed, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will find mercy.