Genesis 37:33
37:33 He recognized it and exclaimed, “It is my son’s tunic! A wild animal has eaten him! Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”
Genesis 37:35
37:35 All his sons and daughters stood by
him to console him, but he refused to be consoled. “No,” he said, “I will go to the grave mourning my son.”
So Joseph’s
father wept for him.
Genesis 42:36
42:36 Their father Jacob said to them, “You are making me childless! Joseph is gone.
Simeon is gone.
And now you want to take
Benjamin! Everything is against me.”
Genesis 45:26
45:26 They told him, “Joseph is still alive and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt!” Jacob was stunned,
for he did not believe them.