Bereshis 37:20-22

Orthodox Jewish Bible

²⁰ Come now therefore, and let us kill him, and throw him into one of the borot (pits), and we will say, Some chayyah ra’ah (evil wild beast) hath devoured him; and we shall see what will become of his chalomot.

²¹ And Reuven heard it, and he saved him out of their yadayim; and said, Let us not take his nefesh.

²² And Reuven said unto them, Do no shefach dahm (shedding of blood), but throw him into this bor that is in the midbar, and lay no yad upon him; that he might rescue him out of their yadayim, to take him back to Aviv.