They took Joseph’s tunic, and after slaughtering a goat, dipped the tunic in its blood.
So when Joseph came up to his brothers, they stripped him of his tunic, the long ornamented tunic he had on;
Israel loved Joseph best of all his sons, for he was the child of his old age; and he had made him a long ornamented tunic.
Then they sent someone to bring the long ornamented tunic to their father, with the message: “We found this. See whether it is your son’s tunic or not.”
One of them, however, has gone away from me, and I said, “He must have been torn to pieces by wild beasts!” I have not seen him since.
When they told him, “Joseph is still alive—in fact, it is he who is governing all the land of Egypt,” he was unmoved, for he did not believe them.
Those who conceal their sins do not prosper, but those who confess and forsake them obtain mercy.