Genesis 37:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ But when Reuben heard it, he delivered him out of their hands, saying, “Let us not take his life.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ Now Reuben heard it and he delivered him out of their hands by saying, Let us not kill him.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, Let us not take his life.

Common English Bible

²¹ When Reuben heard what they said, he saved him from them, telling them, “Let’s not take his life.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ But Reuben, on hearing this, strove to free him from their hands, and he said:

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ And Ruben hearing this, endeavoured to deliver him out of their hands, and said:

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Genesis 35:22

While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

Genesis 37:22

Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood; throw him into this pit here in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he might rescue him out of their hand and restore him to his father.

Genesis 42:22

Then Reuben answered them, “Did I not tell you not to wrong the boy? But you would not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood.”

Genesis 9:5

For your own lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning: from every animal I will require it and from human beings, each one for the blood of another, I will require a reckoning for human life.

Matthew 10:28

Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, fear the one who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Joshua 10:28

Joshua took Makkedah on that day and struck it and its king with the edge of the sword; he utterly destroyed every person in it; he left no one remaining. And he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.