Genesis 37:22

Geneva Bible (1560)

Also Reuben saide vnto them, Shed not blood, but cast him into this pitte that is in the wildernesse, and lay no hande vpon him. Thus he said, that he might deliuer him out of their hand, and restore him to his father againe.

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  • Gen 22:12 : 12 Then he said, Lay not thine hand vpon the childe, neither doe any thing vnto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing for my sake thou hast not spared thine onely sonne.
  • Gen 42:22 : 22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Warned I not you, saying, Sinne not against the childe, and ye would not heare? and lo, his blood is now required.
  • Exod 24:11 : 11 And vpon the nobles of the children of Israel he laide not his hande: also they sawe God, and did eate and drinke.
  • Deut 13:9 : 9 But thou shalt euen kill him: thine hand shall be first vpon him to put him to death, and then the handes of all the people.
  • Matt 27:24 : 24 When Pilate saw that he auailed nothing, but that more tumult was made, he tooke water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this iust man: looke you to it.
  • Acts 12:1 : 1 Nowe about that time, Herod the King stretched forth his hands to vexe certaine of the Church,

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  • Gen 37:20-21
    2 verses
    90%

    20Come now therefore, and let vs slay him, and cast him into some pitte, and wee will say, A wicked beast hath deuoured him: then wee shall see, what will come of his dreames.

    21But when Reuben heard that, he deliuered him out of their handes, and saide, Let vs not kill him.

  • Gen 42:36-38
    3 verses
    82%

    36Then Iaakob their father said to them, Ye haue robbed me of my children: Ioseph is not, & Simeon is not, and ye will take Beniamin: all these things are against me.

    37Then Reuben answered his father, saying, Slay my two sonnes, if I bring him not to thee againe: deliuer him to mine hand, and I will bring him to thee againe.

    38But he sayd, My sonne shall not go downe with you: for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if death come vnto him by the way which ye goe, then ye shall bring my gray head with sorow vnto the graue.

  • Gen 37:26-32
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    26Then Iudah said vnto his brethren, What auaileth it, if we slay our brother, though wee keepe his blood secret?

    27Come and let vs sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our handes be vpon him: for he is our brother and our flesh: and his brethren obeyed.

    28Then the Midianites marchant men passed by, and they drewe foorth, and lift Ioseph out of the pit, and solde Ioseph vnto the Ishmeelites for twentie pieces of siluer: who brought Ioseph into Egypt.

    29Afterwarde Reuben returned to the pit, and beholde, Ioseph was not in the pit: then he rent his clothes,

    30And returned to his brethren, and said, The childe is not yonder, and I, whither shall I goe?

    31And they tooke Iosephs coate, and killed a kidde of the goates, and dipped the coate in the blood.

    32So they sent that particoloured coat, and they brought it vnto their father, and saide, This haue we founde: see nowe, whether it be thy sonnes coate, or no.

  • Gen 42:22-23
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    22And Reuben answered them, saying, Warned I not you, saying, Sinne not against the childe, and ye would not heare? and lo, his blood is now required.

    23(And they were not aware that Ioseph vnderstoode them: for he spake vnto them by an interpreter.)

  • Gen 37:23-24
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    23Now when Ioseph was come vnto his brethren, they stript Ioseph out of his coate, his particoloured coate that was vpon him.

    24And they tooke him, and cast him into a pit, and the pit was emptie, without water in it.

  • Deut 33:6
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    6Let Reuben liue, and not die, though his men be a small nomber.

  • 1 Chr 5:1
    69%

    1The sonnes also of Reuben the eldest sonne of Israel (for he was the eldest, but had defiled his fathers bed, therefore his birthright was giuen vnto the sonnes of Ioseph the sonne of Israel, so that the genealogie is not rekoned after his birthright.

  • Gen 42:4
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    4But Beniamin Iosephs brother woulde not Iaakob send with his brethren: for he saide, Least death should befall him.

  • Gen 37:18
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    18And when they sawe him a farre off, euen before he came at them, they conspired against him for to slay him.

  • Gen 37:10
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    10Then he tolde it vnto his father and to his brethren, and his father rebuked him, and saide vnto him, What is this dreame, which thou hast dreamed? Shal I, and thy mother, & thy brethren come in deede & fall on the ground before thee?

  • Gen 37:12
    68%

    12Then his brethren went to keepe their fathers sheepe in Shechem.

  • Gen 44:17
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    17But he answered, God forbid, that I should doe so, but the man, with whome the cuppe is founde, he shalbe my seruant, and go ye in peace vnto your father.