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


In Context

18 They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

19 They said one to 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 It happened, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

37:21When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. "Let's not take his life," he said.

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 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.