Genesis 37:22

New King James Version

And Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit which is in the wilderness, and do not lay a hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hands, and bring him back to his father.

Cross References

Genesis 22:12

And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”

Genesis 37:21

But Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands, and said, “Let us not kill him.”

Genesis 37:23

So it came to pass, when Joseph had come to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him.

Genesis 42:22

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

Exodus 24:11

But on the nobles of the children of Israel He did not lay His hand. So they saw God, and they ate and drank.

Jeremiah 36:25

Nevertheless Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah implored the king not to burn the scroll; but he would not listen to them.

Matthew 27:24

When Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all, but rather that a tumult was rising, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this just Person. You see to it.”

Acts 12:1

Now about that time Herod the king stretched out his hand to harass some from the church.

Deuteronomy 13:9

but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people.