26Judah said to his brothers, "What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?


In Context

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

24 and they took him and threw him into the cistern. Now the cistern was empty; there was no water in it.

25 As they sat down to eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm and myrrh, and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt.

26 Judah said to his brothers, "What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

27 Come, let's sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him; after all, he is our brother, our own flesh and blood." His brothers agreed.

28 So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.

Genesis 37:26 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

37:26And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit [is it] if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

37:26And Juda said to his brethren: What will it profit us to kill our brother, and conceal his blood?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

37:26And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

37:26And Judah said to his brethren, What profit is it that we kill our brother and secrete his blood?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

37:26And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

37:26And Judah said to his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

37:26Judah said to his brothers, |What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

37:26And Judah saith unto his brethren, 'What gain when we slay our brother, and have concealed his blood?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

37:26And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?