The LORD said, *What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.
Genesis 42:22 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Re'uven answered them, saying, *Didn't I tell you, saying, 'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.* Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Reuben answered them, Did I not tell you, Do not sin against the boy, and you would not hear? Therefore, behold, his blood is required [of us]. American Standard Version (1901) And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore also, behold, his blood is required. Common English Bible Reuben responded to them, “Didn’t I tell you, ‘Don’t do anything wrong to the boy’? But you wouldn’t listen. So now this is payback for his death.” Catholic Public Domain Version And Reuben, one of them, said: "Did not I say to you, 'Do not sin against the boy,' and you would not listen to me? See, his blood is exacted." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Ruben, one of them, said: Did not I say to you: Do not sin against the boy; and you would not hear me? Behold, his blood is required. |
The LORD said, *What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.
They didn't know that Yosef understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.
Yosef said to his brothers, *I am Yosef! Does my father still live?* His brothers couldn't answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.
When Yosef's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, *It may be that Yosef will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all of the evil which we did to him.*
The LORD will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn't know it, [to wit], Aviner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Yisra'el, and `Amasa the son of Yeter, captain of the army of Yehudah.
So shall their blood return on the head of Yo'av, and on the head of his seed forever: but to David, and to his seed, and to his house, and to his throne, shall there be shalom for ever from the LORD.
Thus Yo'ash the king didn't remember the kindness which Yehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, the LORD look on it, and require it.
For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn't forget the cry of the afflicted.
When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.
And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.*
When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, *No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.*
in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)
If anyone has captivity, he will go. If anyone is with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the holy ones.
People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn't repent and give him glory.
Yonatan spoke good of David to Sha'ul his father, and said to him, Don't let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you: