OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 22

Genesis 37:22

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Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.

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Genesis 37:19–25

19

They said to one another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.

20

Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”

21

Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.”

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Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.

23

When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him;

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and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.

25

They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

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