Genesis 37:21
World English Bible (WEB)
Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.”
In context
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.”
22 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;
Genesis 37:21 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.”
- KJV King James Version
- And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue Joseph from their hands. “Let us not take his life,” he said.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, Let us not take his life.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And Reuben heareth, and delivereth him out of their hand, and saith, 'Let us not smite the life;'
- DBY Darby Translation
- And Reuben heard [it], and delivered him out of their hand, and said, Let us not take his life.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him from their hands: and said, Let us not kill him.