Génesis 37:29

29 Cuando Rubén volvió a la cisterna y José ya no estaba allí, se rasgó las vestiduras en señal de duelo.

Génesis 37:29 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 37:29

And Reuben returned unto the pit
It is very probable he had pretended to go somewhere on business, with an intention to take a circuit, and come to the pit and deliver his brother, and go home with him to his father. The Jews say ^F2 he departed from his brethren, and sat down on a certain mountain, that he might descend in the night and take Joseph out of the pit, and accordingly he came down in the night, and found him not. So Josephus ^F3 says, it was in the night when Reuben came to the pit, who calling to Joseph, and he not answering, suspected he was killed:

and, behold, Joseph [was] not in the pit;
for neither by looking down into it could he see him, nor by calling be answered by him, which made it a clear case to him he was not there:

and he rent his clothes;
as a token of distress and anguish of mind, of sorrow and mourning, as was usual in such cases; Jacob afterwards did the same, ( Genesis 37:34 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 Pirke Eliezer, ut supra. (c. 38.)
F3 Antiqu. l. 2. c. 3. sect. 3.

Génesis 37:29 In-Context

27 En vez de eliminarlo, vendámoslo a los ismaelitas; al fin de cuentas, es nuestro propio hermano.Sus hermanos estuvieron de acuerdo con él,

28 así que cuando los mercaderes madianitas se acercaron, sacaron a José de la cisterna y se lo vendieron a los ismaelitas por veinte monedas de plata. Fue así como se llevaron a José a Egipto.

29 Cuando Rubén volvió a la cisterna y José ya no estaba allí, se rasgó las vestiduras en señal de duelo.

30 Regresó entonces adonde estaban sus hermanos, y les reclamó:—¡Ya no está ese muchacho! Y ahora, ¿qué hago?

31 En seguida los hermanos tomaron la túnica especial de José, degollaron un cabrito, y con la sangre empaparon la túnica.