Objects
decorated-tunic
Jacob gives Joseph a decorated tunic marking his favor; his brothers strip it from him and dip it in goat's blood in Genesis 37; Potiphar's wife seizes it when Joseph flees her advances in Genesis 39.
Category
Objects
First mention
Genesis 37:3
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2
Scripture references
- Genesis 37:3
Jacob loved Joseph more than all his other sons, for he was the son of his old age, and he had a decorated tunic made for him.
- Genesis 37:23
So, when Joseph reached his brothers, they pulled off his tunic, the decorated tunic which he was wearing,
- Genesis 37:31
They took Joseph's tunic and, slaughtering a goat, dipped the tunic in the blood.
- Genesis 37:32
Then they sent off the decorated tunic and had it taken to their father, with the message, 'This is what we have found. Do you recognise it as your son's tunic or not?'
- Genesis 39:12
she caught hold of him by his tunic and said, 'Sleep with me.' But he left the tunic in her hand, took to his heels and got out.
- Genesis 39:13
When she saw that he had left the tunic in her hands as he ran out,
- Genesis 39:16
She kept his tunic by her until his master came home.
- Genesis 39:18
But when I screamed, he left his tunic beside me and ran away.'