Genesis 37:26

New American Bible - revised edition

Judah said to his brothers: “What is to be gained by killing our brother and concealing his blood?

Cross References

Genesis 25:32

“Look,” said Esau, “I am on the point of dying. What good is the right as firstborn to me?”

Genesis 37:20

Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the cisterns here; we could say that a wild beast devoured him. We will see then what comes of his dreams.”

Genesis 4:10

God then said: What have you done? Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground!

Genesis 4:9

Then the Lord asked Cain, Where is your brother Abel? He answered, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”

Genesis 40:15

The truth is that I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and I have not done anything here that they should have put me into a dungeon.”

Genesis 42:21

To one another, however, they said: “Truly we are being punished because of our brother. We saw the anguish of his heart when he pleaded with us, yet we would not listen. That is why this anguish has now come upon us.”

Genesis 50:20

Even though you meant harm to me, God meant it for good, to achieve this present end, the survival of many people.

2 Samuel 1:16

David said to him, “Your blood is on your head, for you testified against yourself when you said, ‘I put the Lord’s anointed to death.’” Lament for Saul and Jonathan.

Job 16:18

O earth, do not cover my blood, nor let my outcry come to rest!

Psalm 30:9

To you, Lord, I cried out; with the Lord I pleaded for mercy:

Jeremiah 36:25

And though Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.

Jeremiah 41:8

Ten of them said to Ishmael: “Do not kill us! We have stores of wheat and barley, oil and honey hidden in the field.” So he spared them and did not kill them as he had killed their companions.

Ezekiel 24:7

For her blood is still in her midst; on a bare rock she left it; She did not pour it on the ground to be covered with dirt.

Matthew 16:26

What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what can one give in exchange for his life?

Romans 6:21

But what profit did you get then from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Deuteronomy 17:8

If there is a case for judgment which proves too baffling for you to decide, in a matter of bloodshed or of law or of injury, matters of dispute within your gates, you shall then go up to the place which the Lord, your God, will choose,