Verse 21
Genesis 37:21
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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And Ruben hearing this, endeavoured to deliver him out of their hands, end said:
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
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And Jacob dwelt in the land of Chanaan wherein his father sojourned.
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And these are his generations: Joseph, when he was sixteen years old, was feeding the dock with his...
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Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in his old age: and he made him a coa...
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And his brethren seeing that he was loved by his father, more than all his sons, hated him, and coul...
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Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them t...
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And he said to them: Hear my dream which I dreamed.
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I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose as it were, end stood, and your s...
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His brethren answered : Shalt thou be our king? or shall we be subject to thy dominion? Therefore th...
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He dreamed also another dream, which he told his brethren, saying: I saw in a dream, as it were the...
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And when he had told this to his father and brethren, his father rebuked him, and said: What meaneth...
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His brethren therefore envied him: but his father considered the thing with himself.
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And when his brethren abode in Sichem feeding their father's docks,
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Israel said to him : Thy brethren feed the sheep in Sichem: come, I will send thee to them. And when...
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I am ready: he said to him: Go, and see if all things be well with thy brethren, and the cattle: and...
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And a man found him there wandering in the field, and asked what he sought.
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But he answered: I seek my brethren; tell me where they feed the docks.
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And the man said to him: They are departed from this place: for I heard them say: Let us go to Dotha...
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And when they saw him afar off, be- fore he came nigh them, they thought to kill him.
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And said one to another: Behold the dreamer cometh.
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Come, let us kill him, and cast him into some old pit : and we will say : Some evil beast hath devou...
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And Ruben hearing this, endeavoured to deliver him out of their hands, end said:
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Do not take away his life, nor shed his blood: but cast him into this pit, that is in the wilderness...
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And as soon as he came to his brethren, they forthwith stript him of his outside coat, that was of d...
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And cast him into an old pit, where there was no water.
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And sitting down to eat bread, they saw some Ismaelites on their way coming from Calaad, with their...
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And Juda said to his brethren: What will it profit us to kill our brother, and conceal his blood?
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It is better that he be sold to the Ismaelites, and that our hands be not defiled: for he is our bro...
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And when the Madianite merchants passed by, they drew him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ismael...
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And Ruben, returning to the pit, found not the boy:
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And rending his garments he went to his brethren, and said: The boy doth not appear and whither shal...
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And they took his coat, and dipped it in the blood of a kid, which they had killed :
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Sending some to carry it to their father, and to say: This we have found: see whether it be thy son'...
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And the father acknowledging it, said: It is my son's coat, an evil wild beast hath eaten him, a bea...
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And tearing his garments, he put an sackcloth, mourning for his son a long time.
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And alibis children being gathered together to comfort their father in his sorrow, he would not rece...
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The Madianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Putiphar, an eunuch of Pharao, captain of the soldiers.
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