Genesis Chapter 37 verse 31 Holy Bible
And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a he-goat, and dipped the coat in the blood;
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Then they took Joseph's coat, and put on it some of the blood from a young goat which they had put to death,
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And they took Joseph's vest, and slaughtered a buck of the goats, and dipped the vest in the blood;
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And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;
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And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood:
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They took Joseph's coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.
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And they take the coat of Joseph, and slaughter a kid of the goats, and dip the coat in the blood,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 31, 32. - And they - i.e. Joseph's Brethren, including Reuben, to whom manifestly the matter had been explained (Candlish thinks Reuben may have been deceived by his brethren), and who wanted the courage either to expose their wickedness or to dissent from their device for deceiving Jacob - took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, - more correctly, a he-goat of the goats, since the name of goat seems to have belonged in a wider sense to other animals also (Gesenius); usually understood to mean the somewhat older he-goat which was used as a sin offering - Leviticus 16:9; Leviticus 23:19; Numbers 7:16; Numbers 15:24 (Furst) - and dipped the coat in the blood; and they sent the coat of many colors (vide on ver. 3), and they brought it (or caused it to be brought by the hands of a servant) to their father, and said (of course by the lips of the messenger), This have we found: know now whether it be thy son's coat or no. Either Jacob's sons had not the fortitude to witness the first outburst of his grief, or they had not the effrontery requisite to carry through their scheme in their own persons, and were accordingly obliged to employ another, probably a slave, to carry home the bloody coat to Jacob in Hebron.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(31) A kid of the goats.--Heb., a full grown he-goat. Maimonides thinks that the reason why he-goats were so often used as sin-offerings under the Levitical law was to remind the Israelites of this great sin committed by their patriarchs.
