Catholic Public Domain Version
"And rending his garments, he went to his brothers and said, “The boy is not present, and so where shall I go?” "
— Genesis 37:30, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go?”
“And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go? ”
“He returned to his brothers, and said, "The child is no more; and I, where will I go?"”
“returned to his brothers, and said,“The boy isn’t there! And I, where can I go?””
“And rending his garments he went to his brethren, and said: The boy doth not appear, and whither shall I go?”
“He went back to his brothers, and said, The child is gone; what am I to do?”
“And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go?”
It is better that he be sold to the Ishmaelites, and then our hands will not be defiled. For he is our brother and our flesh.” His brothers agreed to his words.
And when the Midianite merchants were passing by, they drew him from the cistern, and they sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And these led him into Egypt.
And Reuben, returning to the cistern, did not find the boy.
And rending his garments, he went to his brothers and said, “The boy is not present, and so where shall I go?”
Then they took his tunic, and they dipped it in the blood of a young goat, which they had killed,
sending those who carried it to their father, and they said: “We found this. See whether it is the tunic of your son or not.”
And when the father acknowledged it, he said: “It is the tunic of my son. An evil wild beast has eaten him; a beast has devoured Joseph.”