Genesis 37:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And Judah said to his brothers, What do we gain if we slay our brother and conceal his blood? American Standard Version (1901) And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood? Common English Bible Judah said to his brothers, “What do we gain if we kill our brother and hide his blood? Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, Judah said to his brothers: "What will it profit us, if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Juda said to his brethren: What will it profit us to kill our brother, and conceal his blood? |
Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits; then we shall say that a wild animal has devoured him, and we shall see what will become of his dreams.”
And the Lord said, “What have you done? Listen, your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!
Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother’s keeper?”
For in fact I was stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should have put me into the dungeon.”
They said to one another, “Alas, we are paying the penalty for what we did to our brother; we saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this anguish has come upon us.”
Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good, in order to preserve a numerous people, as he is doing today.
David said to him, “Your blood be on your head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have killed the Lord’s anointed.’ ”
“What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the Pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?
Even when Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.
But there were ten men among them who said to Ishmael, “Do not kill us, for we have stores of wheat, barley, oil, and honey hidden in the fields.” So he refrained and did not kill them along with their companions.
For the blood she shed is inside it; she placed it on a bare rock; she did not pour it out on the ground, to cover it with earth.
For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?
So what fruit did you then gain from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death.
“If a judicial decision is too difficult for you to make between one kind of bloodshed and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another—any such matters of dispute in your towns—then you shall immediately go up to the place that the Lord your God will choose,