30. Then he went back to his brothers and lamented, “The boy is gone! What will I do now?”
31. Then the brothers killed a young goat and dipped Joseph’s robe in its blood.
32. They sent the beautiful robe to their father with this message: “Look at what we found. Doesn’t this robe belong to your son?”
33. Their father recognized it immediately. “Yes,” he said, “it is my son’s robe. A wild animal must have eaten him. Joseph has clearly been torn to pieces!”