Upon stripping him of the precious coat of many colors which his loving father made, and selling him to the traveling group of Ishmaelites, Joseph’s jealous brothers were faced with the difficult dilemma of, “What are we going to tell our Father?” So, “they took Joseph’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood” (Genesis 37:31). The following verse indicates that they simply were intending to show the bloody coat to their father — whereupon he could arrive at his own conclusion concerning Joseph’s demise. His response is as follows: “And he knew it, and said, It is my son’s coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces. And Jacob…mourned for his son many days…I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him” (Genesis 37:33-35, emp. added). Jacob’s reaction to the news of Joseph’s “death” can be summarized as follows: (1) He heard the testimony of his sons. (2) He saw evidence bearing witness to their testimony — “And they sent the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father” (37:32), (remember, Jacob made the coat himself, 37:3b). (3) He sincerely believed the testimony he heard and the evidence he saw — “And he knew it, and said, It is my son’s coat” (37:33). (4) He reacted to the testimony he sincerely believed and to the evidence he saw — he “rent his clothes…and mourned for his son many