Genesis 37:20-22

Jubilee Bible 2000

²⁰ now therefore, come and let us slay him and cast him into a cistern, and we will say, Some evil beast has devoured him; and we shall see what will become of his dreams.

²¹ When Reuben heard it, he delivered him out of their hands and said, Let us not kill him.

²² And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood but cast him into this cistern that is in the wilderness and lay no hand upon him that he might rid him out of their hands to deliver him to his father again.