Genesis 37:22

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 22:12

Then He said, “Do not lay your hands on the boy or do anything to him, because now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your only son from Me.”

Genesis 37:21

But when Reuben heard it, he rescued him out of their hands, saying, “Let us not kill him.”

Genesis 37:23

When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his coat—his coat of many colors that he had on.

Genesis 42:22

Reuben answered them, saying, “Did I not speak to you, saying, ‘Do not sin against the boy’; and you would not listen? Therefore, his blood is now required of us.”

Exodus 24:11

He did not lay His hand upon the nobles of the Israelites. Also they saw God, and they ate and they drank.

Jeremiah 36:25

Although Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah entreated the king not to burn the scroll, yet he would not listen to them.

Matthew 27:24

When Pilate saw that he could not prevail, but rather that unrest was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous Man. See to it yourselves.”

Acts 12:1

About that time King Herod extended his hands to harm certain ones from the church.

Deuteronomy 13:9

but you must surely kill him. Your hand must be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards, the hand of all the people.