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Source language
JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH   
ויקרע יעקב שמלתיו וישם שק במתניו ויתאבל על בנו ימים רבים
Hebrew - Transliteration via code library   
vyqr` y`qb SHmltyv vySHm SHq bmtnyv vytAbl `l bnv ymym rbym

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
scissisque vestibus indutus est cilicio lugens filium multo tempore

King James Variants
American King James Version   
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
And Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
Authorized (King James) Version   
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
New King James Version   
Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
21st Century King James Version   
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

Other translations
American Standard Version   
And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
Darby Bible Translation   
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
And tearing his garments, he put an sackcloth, mourning for his son a long time.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.
God's Word   
Then, to show his grief, Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son a long time.
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
International Standard Version   
So Jacob tore his clothes, dressed himself in sackcloth, and then mourned many days for his son.
NET Bible   
Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourned for his son many days.
New American Standard Bible   
So Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.
New International Version   
Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and mourned for his son many days.
New Living Translation   
Then Jacob tore his clothes and dressed himself in burlap. He mourned deeply for his son for a long time.
Webster's Bible Translation   
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
The World English Bible   
Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
EasyEnglish Bible   
Jacob was so upset that he tore his own clothes. He put on clothes made from sackcloth to show how sad he was. He wept for many days because his son had died.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
And Jacob rendeth his raiment, and putteth sackcloth on his loins, and becometh a mourner for his son many days,
New Life Version   
So Jacob tore his clothes and dressed in clothes made from hair. He had sorrow for his son many days.
The Voice Bible   
Then Jacob wailed in agony and tore his clothes with the depth of emotional pain only a father could feel upon losing a child. He dressed in sackcloth and mourned his son for a long time.
Living Bible   
Then Israel tore his garments and put on sackcloth and mourned for his son in deepest mourning for many weeks.
New Catholic Bible   
Then Jacob ripped his clothes, put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned his son for many days.
Legacy Standard Bible   
So Jacob tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.
Jubilee Bible 2000   
Then Jacob rent his clothes and put sackcloth upon his loins and mourned for his son many days.
Christian Standard Bible   
Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
Amplified Bible © 1954   
And Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourned many days for his son.
New Century Version   
Then Jacob tore his clothes and put on rough cloth to show that he was upset, and he continued to be sad about his son for a long time.
The Message   
Jacob tore his clothes in grief, dressed in rough burlap, and mourned his son a long, long time. His sons and daughters tried to comfort him but he refused their comfort. “I’ll go to the grave mourning my son.” Oh, how his father wept for him.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
Jacob tore his clothing, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son for many days.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
Then Jacob tore his garments, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
Good News Translation®   
Jacob tore his clothes in sorrow and put on sackcloth. He mourned for his son a long time.
Wycliffe Bible   
And he rent his clothes, and he was clothed with an hair shirt, and bewailed his son in much time (and for a long time he bewailed his son).
Contemporary English Version   
Jacob mourned for Joseph a long time, and to show his sorrow he tore his clothes and wore sackcloth.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
Then Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
Then Jacob tore his garments, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son for many days.
Common English Bible © 2011   
Then Jacob tore his clothes, put a simple mourning cloth around his waist, and mourned for his son for many days.
Amplified Bible © 2015   
So Jacob tore his clothes [in grief], put on sackcloth and mourned many days for his son.
English Standard Version Anglicised   
Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son for many days.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
Then Jacob tore his garments, put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned his son many days.
New American Standard Bible   
So Jacob tore his clothes, and put on a sackcloth undergarment over his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
The Expanded Bible   
Then Jacob tore his clothes and put ·on rough cloth [burlap/sackcloth on his loins; C to show he was upset], and he continued ·to be sad about [mourn for] his son for ·a long time [L many days].
Tree of Life Version   
Jacob tore his clothing and put on sackcloth and mourned for his son many days.
Revised Standard Version   
Then Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
New International Reader's Version   
Jacob tore his clothes. He put on the rough clothing people wear when they’re sad. Then he mourned for his son many days.
BRG Bible   
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
Complete Jewish Bible   
Ya‘akov tore his clothes and, putting sackcloth around his waist, mourned his son for many days.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
Then Jacob tore his garments, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son for many days.
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
And Ya’akov made the keriah of his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for beno yamim rabbim.
Names of God Bible   
Then, to show his grief, Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son a long time.
Modern English Version   
Jacob tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his waist and mourned for his son many days.
Easy-to-Read Version   
Jacob was so sorry about his son that he tore his clothes. Then Jacob put on special clothes to show that he was sad. He continued to be sad about his son for a long time.
International Children’s Bible   
Then Jacob tore his clothes and put on rough cloth to show that he was sad. He continued to be sad about his son for a long time.
Lexham English Bible   
And Jacob tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.
New International Version - UK   
Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and mourned for his son many days.