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Genesis 37:21
Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.”
Genesis 37:21 · World English Bible
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Genesis 37:21 in other translations
And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.
When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue Joseph from their hands. “Let us not take his life,” he said.
Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, "Let's not take his life."
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In context
18 They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.
19 They said to one 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.”
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.
23 When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him;
24 and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.
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