The most famous garment in the Bible, and nobody is certain what it was (37:3). A ketonet is a plain tunic — the same word for the garments God makes in 3:21. Passim is the puzzle. The Septuagint guessed poikilos, 'many-hued'; the Vulgate followed with tunica polymita, 'many-threaded'; the KJV inherited 'a coat of many colours' and the Douay, translating the Latin, 'a coat of divers colours.' But elsewhere Hebrew pas means the flat of the hand or foot (it is the word for the PALM of the hand that writes on Belshazzar's wall, Daniel 5:5) — which yields a tunic reaching to the extremities: long-sleeved, ankle-length, the robe of someone who plainly does no work. The ASV keeps 'many colours' but concedes 'a long garment with sleeves' in the margin; the NWT reads 'a long striped garment'; the NIV 'an ornate robe,' noting the meaning is uncertain. The one hard clue: the phrase occurs in only one other story — it is what Tamar, David's daughter, wears, 'for so were the virgin daughters of the king robed,' and tears after Amnon rapes her (2 Samuel 13:18-19). Both are garments of royal rank; both end torn in a story about a violated sibling. This translation renders 'a long ornamented tunic,' with the doubt flagged rather than painted over. → first discussed at Gen 37:3