21When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. "Let's not take his life," he said.


In Context

18 But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.

19 "Here comes that dreamer!" they said to each other.

20 "Come now, let's kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we'll see what comes of his dreams."

21 When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. "Let's not take his life," he said.

22 "Don't shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern here in the desert, but don't lay a hand on him." Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father.

23 So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe-the richly ornamented robe he was wearing-

Genesis 37:21 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

37:21And Reuben heard [it,] and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

37:21And Ruben hearing this, endeavoured to deliver him out of their hands, end said:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

37:21And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, Let us not take his life.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

37:21And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, Let us not take his life.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

37:21And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand; and said, Let us not take his life.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

37:21And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him from their hands: and said, Let us not kill him.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

37:21Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, |Let's not take his life.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

37:21And Reuben heareth, and delivereth him out of their hand, and saith, 'Let us not smite the life;'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

37:21And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.