“And they took Joseph’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;”
Then they got Joseph's robe, slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe in the blood. The preparation of the evidence — goat's blood on the coat — is the brothers' cover story. The goat slaughtered to deceive the father mirrors the goat served to Isaac in Genesis 27:9 — the family deception that began with Rebekah and Jacob is perpetuated in the next generation. The application: the deception that passed from one generation to the next now comes back to Jacob: the deceiver is deceived with the same instrument — animal skin and covered truth.
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