Genesis 37:22

New English Translation

Reuben continued, “Don’t shed blood! Throw him into this cistern that is here in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him.” (Reuben said this so he could rescue Joseph from them and take him back to his father.)

Cross References

Genesis 22:12

“Do not harm the boy!” the angel said. “Do not do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God because you did not withhold your son, your only son, from me.”

Genesis 37:21

When Reuben heard this, he rescued Joseph from their hands, saying, “Let’s not take his life!”

Genesis 37:23

When Joseph reached his brothers, they stripped him of his tunic, the special tunic that he wore.

Genesis 42:22

Reuben said to them, “Didn’t I say to you, ‘Don’t sin against the boy,’ but you wouldn’t listen? So now we must pay for shedding his blood!”

Exodus 24:11

But he did not lay a hand on the leaders of the Israelites, so they saw God, and they ate and they drank.

Jeremiah 36:25

The king did not even listen to Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah, who had urged him not to burn the scroll.

Matthew 27:24

When Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but that instead a riot was starting, he took some water, washed his hands before the crowd and said, “I am innocent of this man’s blood. You take care of it yourselves!”

Acts 12:1

About that time King Herod laid hands on some from the church to harm them.

Deuteronomy 13:9

Instead, you must kill him without fail! Your own hand must be the first to strike him, and then the hands of the whole community.