Genesis 37:20-22

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁰ Come, let us kill him, and cast him into some old pit: and we will say: Some evil beast hath devoured him: and then it shall appear what his dreams avail him:

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

²² Do not take away his life, nor shed his blood: but cast him into this pit, that is in the wilderness, and keep your hands harmless: now he said this, being desirous to deliver him out of their hands and to restore him to his father.