Genesis 37:34
And tearing his garments, he put on sackcloth, mourning for his son a long time.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Scissisque vestibus, indutus est cilicio, lugens filium suum multo tempore.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- διέρρηξεν δὲ Ἰακὼβ τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐπέθετο σάκκον ἐπὶ τὴν ὀσφὺν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐπένθει τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ ἡμέρας τινάς.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּקְרַ֤ע יַעֲקֹב֙ שִׂמְלֹתָ֔יו וַיָּ֥שֶׂם שַׂ֖ק בְּמָתְנָ֑יו וַיִּתְאַבֵּ֥ל עַל בְּנ֖וֹ יָמִ֥ים רַבִּֽים
Haydock's commentary
Sack-cloth, or hair-cloth, cilicio. These garments were made very close, like a sack, of the hair taken from the goats of Cilicia, which grew long, rough, and of a dark colour. The poorest people used them: Usum in Castrorum & miseris velamina nautis, (Virgil, Geor. 3.); and the Ascetics, or monks, afterwards chose them for the sake of mortification and humility. (Calmet)
Jacob was the first, mentioned in Scripture, who put them on, and the Israelites imitated him in their mourning.
Long time; twenty-three years, till he heard of his son being still alive. (Menochius)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.