Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

and they sent the varicolored tunic and brought it to their father and said, “We found this; please examine it to see whether it is your son’s tunic or not.”

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

They sent the robe of many colors to their father and said, “We found this. Examine it. Is it your son’s robe or not?”

International Standard Version

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."

A Conservative Version

And they sent the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, We have found this. Know now whether it is thy son's coat or not.

American Standard Version

and they sent the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, This have we found: know now whether it is thy son's coat or not.

Amplified

and they brought the multicolored tunic to their father, saying, “We have found this; please examine it and decide whether or not it is your son’s tunic.”

Bible in Basic English

And they took the coat to their father, and said, We came across this; is it your son's coat or not?

Darby Translation

and they sent the vest of many colours and had it carried to their father, and said, This have we found: discern now whether it is thy son's vest or not.

Julia Smith Translation

And they will send the tunic, reaching down to the soles of the feet., and will bring to their father, and they will say, We found this: recognise now, is this thy son's tunic or not?

King James 2000

And they sent the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: see now whether it be your son's coat or not.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Then they sent the robe with long sleeves and they brought [it] to their father and said, "We found this; please examine [it]. [Is] it the robe of your son or not?"

Modern King James verseion

And they sent the tunic reaching to the soles of the feet, and they brought it to their father. And they said, We have found this. Do you know whether it is your son's coat or not?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And they sent that gay coat and caused it to be brought unto their father and said, "This have we found: see, whether it be thy son's coat or no."

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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."

The Emphasized Bible

and sent the long tunic and brought it in unto their father, and said This, have we found! Examine, we pray thee, whether it is the tunic of thy son, or not!

Webster

And they sent the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it is thy son's coat or not.

World English Bible

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."

Youngs Literal Translation

and send the long coat, and they bring it in unto their father, and say, 'This have we found; discern, we pray thee, whether it is thy son's coat or not?'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And they sent
שׁלח 
Shalach 
Usage: 848

the coat
כּתּנת כּתנת 
K@thoneth 
Usage: 29

פּס 
Pac 
Usage: 5


come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

and said

Usage: 0

מצא 
Matsa' 
Usage: 455

נכר 
Nakar 
Usage: 49

כּתּנת כּתנת 
K@thoneth 
Usage: 29

References

Fausets

Morish

Context Readings

Joseph Sold Into Slavery

31 Then they took Joseph's coat and killed a kid of the goats and dipped the coat in the blood; 32 and they sent the varicolored tunic and brought it to their father and said, “We found this; please examine it to see whether it is your son’s tunic or not.” 33 And he knew it and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast has devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.



Cross References

Genesis 37:3

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his other sons because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colours.

Genesis 44:20-23

And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a young man of his old age, yet a lad; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.

Luke 15:30

But as soon as this thy son was come who has devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed the fatted calf for him.

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