Genesis 37:26

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gen 37:20 : 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 4:10 : 10 Yahweh said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.
  • Gen 25:32 : 32 Esau said, "Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?"
  • Deut 17:8 : 8 If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose;
  • 2 Sam 1:16 : 16 David said to him, "Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have slain Yahweh's anointed.'"
  • Job 16:18 : 18 "Earth, don't cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.
  • Ps 30:9 : 9 "What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
  • Jer 41:8 : 8 But ten men were found among those who said to Ishmael, Don't kill us; for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he stopped, and didn't kill them among their brothers.
  • Ezek 24:7 : 7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the bare rock; she didn't pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.
  • Matt 16:26 : 26 For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
  • Rom 6:21 : 21 What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 37:27
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    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 42:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    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."

  • Gen 37:20-22
    3 verses
    74%

    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."

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

    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 43:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    6 Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly, telling the man that you had another brother?"

    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 43:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3 Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'

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

  • Gen 44:16
    72%

    16 Judah said, "What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? Or how will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord's bondservants, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found."

  • Gen 37:25
    71%

    25 They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

  • Gen 44:7
    70%

    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 37:31
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    31 They took Joseph's coat, and killed a male goat, and dipped the coat in the blood.