Verse 37

And Reuben said, Put my two sons to death if I do not come back to you with him; let him be in my care and I will give him safely back to you.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 46:9 : 9 And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi;
• Mic 6:7 : 7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of sheep or with ten thousand rivers of oil? am I to give my first child for my wrongdoing, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
• Gen 43:9 : 9 Truly, if we had not let the time go by, we might have come back again by now.
• Gen 44:32-34 : 32 For I made myself responsible for the boy to my father, saying, If I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever. 33 So now let me be my lord's servant here in place of the boy, and let him go back with his brothers. 34 For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?