Verse 21
Genesis 37:21
World English Bible, British Edition
21
Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said,
“Let’s not take his life.”
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּשְׁמַ֣ע רְאוּבֵ֔ן וַ/יַּצִּלֵ֖/הוּ מִ/יָּדָ֑/ם וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר לֹ֥א נַכֶּ֖/נּוּ נָֽפֶשׁ
English Translation
And Reuben heard and saved him from their hand, and he said, "We shall not kill him."
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Chapter 37 Context
1
Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan.
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2
This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen
years old, was feeding the...
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3
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the
son of his old age, and he ma...
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4
His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers,
and they hated him, and cou...
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5
Joseph dreamt a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they
hated him all the more.
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6
He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamt:
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for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf
arose and also stood upright;...
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8
His brothers asked him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Will you
indeed have dominion over us?” They...
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9
He dreamt yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold,
I have dreamt yet anoth...
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10
He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him,
and said to him, “What is this...
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11
His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.
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12
His brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.
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Israel said to Joseph, “Aren’t your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem?
Come, and I will send you...
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14
He said to him, “Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers,
and well with the flock; and bri...
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15
A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field.
The man asked him, “What are you...
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16
He said, “I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where
they are feeding the flock.”
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The man said, “They have left here, for I heard them say, ‘Let’s
go to Dothan.’”
Joseph went after h...
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18
They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired
against him to kill him.
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19
They said to one another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.
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Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the
pits, and we will say, ‘An evil...
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21
Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said,
“Let’s not take his life.”
22
Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is
in the wilderness, but lay no h...
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23
When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his tunic,
the tunic of many colours that...
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and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There
was no water in it.
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25
They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and
looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelit...
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26
Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother
and conceal his blood?
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Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be
on him; for he is our brother,...
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28
Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up
Joseph out of the pit, and sold...
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29
Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the
pit; and he tore his clothes.
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30
He returned to his brothers, and said, “The child is no more; and I,
where will I go?”
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31
They took Joseph’s tunic, and killed a male goat, and dipped the tunic
in the blood.
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They took the tunic of many colours, and they brought it to their father,
and said, “We have found t...
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33
He recognised it, and said, “It is my son’s tunic. An evil animal
has devoured him. Joseph is withou...
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34
Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned
for his son many days.
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35
All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused
to be comforted. He said,...
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36
The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s,
the captain of the guard.
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