Verse 22

Reuben 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.)

Referenced Verses

• Gen 22:12 : 12 “Do not harm the boy!” the angel said.“Do not do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God because you did not withhold your son, your only son, from me.”
• Gen 42:22 : 22 Reuben 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!”
• Exod 24:11 : 11 But he did not lay a hand on the leaders of the Israelites, so they saw God, and they ate and they drank.
• Deut 13:9 : 9 Instead, you must kill him without fail! Your own hand must be the first to strike him, and then the hands of the whole community.
• Matt 27:24 : 24 Jesus is Condemned and Mocked When Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but that instead a riot was starting, he took some water, washed his hands before the crowd and said,“I am innocent of this man’s blood. You take care of it yourselves!”
• Acts 12:1 : 1 James is Killed and Peter Imprisoned About that time King Herod laid hands on some from the church to harm them.