Genesis 37:22

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.

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  • Gen 22:12 : 12 He said, "Don't lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
  • 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."
  • Exod 24:11 : 11 He didn't lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.
  • Deut 13:9 : 9 but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
  • Matt 27:24 : 24 So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it."
  • Acts 12:1 : 1 Now about that time, Herod the king stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.

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  • Gen 37:20-21
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    20Come 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."

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

  • Gen 42:36-38
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    36Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me."

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

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

  • Gen 37:26-32
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    26Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

    27Come, 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.

    28Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.

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

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

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

    32They 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 42:22-23
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    22Reuben 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."

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

  • Gen 37:23-24
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    23It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;

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

  • Deut 33:6
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    6Let Reuben live, and not die; Nor let his men be few.

  • 1 Chr 5:1
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    1The 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
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    4But Jacob didn't send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers; for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him."

  • Gen 37:18
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    18They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

  • Gen 37:10
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    10He 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?"

  • Gen 37:12
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    12His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.

  • Gen 44:17
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    17He 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."