Genesis 37:33

New American Bible - revised edition

He recognized it and exclaimed: “My son’s tunic! A wild beast has devoured him! Joseph has been torn to pieces!”

Cross References

Genesis 37:20

Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the cisterns here; we could say that a wild beast devoured him. We will see then what comes of his dreams.”

Genesis 37:32

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.”

Genesis 42:38

But Jacob replied: “My son shall not go down with you. Now that his brother is dead, he is the only one left. If some disaster should befall him on the journey you must make, you would send my white head down to Sheol in grief.”

Genesis 44:20

So we said to my lord, ‘We have an aged father, and a younger brother, the child of his old age. This one’s full brother is dead, and since he is the only one by his mother who is left, his father is devoted to him.’

Genesis 44:28

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.

Genesis 48:11

Then Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see your face again, and now God has allowed me to see your descendants as well!”

1 Kings 13:24

and he set out. But a lion met him on the road, and killed him. His body lay sprawled on the road, and the donkey remained standing by it, and so did the lion.

2 Kings 2:24

The prophet turned and saw them, and he cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the children to pieces.

Proverbs 14:15

The naive believe everything, but the shrewd watch their steps.

John 13:7

Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing, you do not understand now, but you will understand later.”