Genesis 37:34 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁴ Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁴ And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁴ And Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourned many days for his son.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁴ And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

Common English Bible

³⁴ Then Jacob tore his clothes, put a simple mourning cloth around his waist, and mourned for his son for many days.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁴ And tearing his garments, he was clothed in haircloth, mourning his son for a long time.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁴ And tearing his garments, he put on sackcloth, mourning for his son a long time.

Genesis 37:34 Cross References

Genesis 37:29

When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he tore his clothes.

Genesis 42:38

But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If harm should come to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

Genesis 44:13

At this they tore their clothes. Then each one loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city.

2 Samuel 1:11

Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and all the men who were with him did the same.

2 Samuel 3:31

Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourn over Abner.” And King David followed the bier.

1 Kings 20:31

His servants said to him, “Look, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings; let us put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will spare your life.”

1 Kings 21:27

When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth over his bare flesh; he fasted, lay in the sackcloth, and went about dejectedly.

2 Kings 19:1

When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.

2 Kings 2:12

Elisha kept watching and crying out, “Father, father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” But when he could no longer see him, he grasped his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.

2 Kings 22:11

When the king heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes.

1 Chronicles 21:16

David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven and in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.

1 Chronicles 7:22

And their father Ephraim mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.

Nehemiah 9:1

Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the Israelites were assembled with fasting and in sackcloth and with earth on their heads.

Job 1:20

Then Job arose, tore his robe, shaved his head, and fell on the ground and worshiped.

Job 16:15

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust.

Job 2:12

When they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him, and they raised their voices and wept aloud; they tore their robes and threw dust in the air upon their heads.

Psalm 69:11

When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble, you women who are at ease; shudder, you complacent ones; strip and make yourselves bare, and put sackcloth on your loins.

Isaiah 36:22

Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.

Jeremiah 36:24

Yet neither the king nor any of his servants who heard all these words was alarmed, nor did they tear their garments.

Jeremiah 48:37

For every head is shaved and every beard cut off; on all the hands there are gashes and on the loins sackcloth.

Joel 2:13

rend your hearts and not your clothing. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from punishment.

Matthew 11:21

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the deeds of power done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Matthew 26:65

Then the high priest tore his clothes and said, “He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? You have now heard his blasphemy.

Acts 14:14

When the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd, shouting,

Joshua 7:6

Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the ground on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel, and they put dust on their heads.

Revelation 11:3

And I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for one thousand two hundred sixty days, wearing sackcloth.”

Judges 11:35

When he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low; you have become the cause of great trouble to me. For I have opened my mouth to the Lord, and I cannot take back my vow.”