OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 37:33

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33

He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s tunic. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.”

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Verse 33. A beast. So he might reasonably conclude from the blood, and from the insinuations of the messengers sent by his ten sons, ( Bible.) whom he would not suspect of so heinous a crime. Wild beasts infested that country. Menochius.

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