And they took Joseph’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;
The brothers killed a kid of the goats and dipped Joseph's coat in its blood. They sent and presented the bloodied coat to Jacob to deceive him into concluding that Joseph had been killed by wild animals, by a wild beast. They concealed their guilt by claiming they had found the coat in the fields.
The deception caused Jacob intense grief as he pictured his son torn apart. His grief was deep and lasting, and he refused his children's comfort, saying he would mourn until he died. The brothers themselves remained troubled by what they had done.
The verse belongs to the account of Joseph being maligned and treated as a criminal despite his virtue, whose apparent suffering for doing right was followed by great victories that God had prepared for him.
The brothers killed a kid of the goats and dipped Joseph's coat in its blood. They sent and presented the bloodied coat to Jacob to deceive him into concluding that Joseph had been killed by wild animals, by a wild beast. They concealed their guilt by claiming they had found the coat in the fields.
The deception caused Jacob intense grief as he pictured his son torn apart. His grief was deep and lasting, and he refused his children's comfort, saying he would mourn until he died. The brothers themselves remained troubled by what they had done.
The verse belongs to the account of Joseph being maligned and treated as a criminal despite his virtue, whose apparent suffering for doing right was followed by great victories that God had prepared for him.