Genesis 37:26

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Then Judah said to his brothers,“What profit is there if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

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  • Gen 37:20 : 20 Come now, let’s kill him, throw him into one of the cisterns, and then say that a wild animal ate him. Then we’ll see how his dreams turn out!”
  • Gen 4:10 : 10 But the LORD said,“What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!
  • Gen 25:32 : 32 “Look,” said Esau,“I’m about to die! What use is the birthright to me?”
  • Deut 17:8 : 8 Appeal to a Higher Court If a matter is too difficult for you to judge– bloodshed, legal claim, or assault– matters of controversy in your villages– you must leave there and go up to the place the LORD your God chooses.
  • 2 Sam 1:16 : 16 David said to him,“Your blood be on your own head! Your own mouth has testified against you, saying‘I have put the LORD’s anointed to death.’”
  • Job 16:18 : 18 An Appeal to God as Witness“O earth, do not cover my blood, nor let there be a secret place for my cry.
  • Ps 30:9 : 9 “What profit is there in taking my life, in my descending into the Pit? Can the dust of the grave praise you? Can it declare your loyalty?
  • Jer 41:8 : 8 But there were ten men among them who said to Ishmael,“Do not kill us. For we will give you the stores of wheat, barley, olive oil, and honey we have hidden in a field.” So he spared their lives and did not kill them along with the rest.
  • Ezek 24:7 : 7 For her blood was in it; she poured it on an exposed rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it up with dust.
  • Matt 16:26 : 26 For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?
  • Rom 6:21 : 21 So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 37:27
    83%

    27Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, but let’s not lay a hand on him, for after all, he is our brother, our own flesh.” His brothers agreed.

  • Gen 42:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    21They said to one another,“Surely we’re being punished because of our brother, because we saw how distressed he was when he cried to us for mercy, but we refused to listen. That is why this distress has come on us!”

    22Reuben said to them,“Didn’t I say to you,‘Don’t sin against the boy,’ but you wouldn’t listen? So now we must pay for shedding his blood!”

  • Gen 37:20-22
    3 verses
    74%

    20Come now, let’s kill him, throw him into one of the cisterns, and then say that a wild animal ate him. Then we’ll see how his dreams turn out!”

    21When Reuben heard this, he rescued Joseph from their hands, saying,“Let’s not take his life!”

    22Reuben continued,“Don’t shed blood! Throw him into this cistern that is here in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him.”(Reuben said this so he could rescue Joseph from them and take him back to his father.)

  • Gen 43:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    6Israel said,“Why did you bring this trouble on me by telling the man you had one more brother?”

    7They replied,“The man questioned us thoroughly about ourselves and our family, saying,‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ So we answered him in this way. How could we possibly know that he would say,‘Bring your brother down’?”

    8Then Judah said to his father Israel,“Send the boy with me and we will go immediately. Then we will live and not die– we and you and our little ones.

  • Gen 43:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3But Judah said to him,“The man solemnly warned us,‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’

    4If you send our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy food for you.

  • Gen 44:16
    72%

    16Judah replied,“What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? How can we clear ourselves? God has exposed the sin of your servants! We are now my lord’s slaves, we and the one in whose possession the cup was found.”

  • Gen 37:25
    71%

    25When they sat down to eat their food, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh down to Egypt.

  • Gen 44:7
    70%

    7They answered him,“Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!

  • Gen 37:31
    70%

    31So they took Joseph’s tunic, killed a young goat, and dipped the tunic in the blood.