Genesis 37:21

World English Bible (2000)

Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, "Let's not take his life."

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  • Gen 42:22 : 22 Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required."
  • Josh 10:28 : 28 Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king. He utterly destroyed them and all the souls who were in it. He left none remaining. He did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.
  • Matt 10:28 : 28 Don't be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
  • Gen 9:5 : 5 I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.
  • Gen 35:22 : 22 It happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 37:22
    90%

    22 Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him"--that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.

  • Gen 37:18-20
    3 verses
    81%

    18 They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

    19 They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes.

    20 Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."

  • Gen 42:37-38
    2 verses
    80%

    37 Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons, if I don't bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again."

    38 He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."

  • Gen 42:20-23
    4 verses
    79%

    20 Bring your youngest brother to me; so will your words be verified, and you won't die." They did so.

    21 They said one to another, "We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us."

    22 Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required."

    23 They didn't know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

  • Deut 33:6
    76%

    6 "Let Reuben live, and not die; Nor let his men be few."

  • Gen 37:29-30
    2 verses
    76%

    29 Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn't in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

    30 He returned to his brothers, and said, "The child is no more; and I, where will I go?"

  • Gen 37:26-27
    2 verses
    75%

    26 Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

    27 Come, and let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh." His brothers listened to him.

  • Gen 44:7
    69%

    7 They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

  • Gen 37:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

    10 He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?"

    11 His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

  • 1 Chr 5:1
    68%

    1 The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.

  • Gen 42:4
    68%

    4 But Jacob didn't send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers; for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him."

  • Gen 43:7-8
    2 verses
    68%

    7 They said, "The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?' We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down?'"

    8 Judah said to Israel, his father, "Send the boy with me, and we'll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.

  • Gen 37:32
    68%

    32 They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, "We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son's coat or not."

  • Gen 37:24
    68%

    24 and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.

  • Gen 44:17
    68%

    17 He said, "Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my bondservant; but as for you, go up in peace to your father."