Now the whole clan has risen up against your servant and said, “Hand over the one who killed his brother so we may put him to death for the life of the brother he murdered. We will eliminate the heir! ” They would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on earth.’
‘But when the tenant farmers saw him, they discussed it among themselves and said, “This is the heir. Let’s kill him, so that the inheritance will be ours.”