Genesis 37:20-22

Revised Geneva Translation

²⁰ “Come now, therefore, and let us kill him and cast him into some pit. And we will say, ‘A wicked beast has devoured him.’ Then we shall see what will come of his dreams.”

²¹ But when Reuben heard that, he delivered him out of their hands, and said, “Let us not kill him.”

²² And Reuben said to them, “Do not shed blood. Cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness; and lay no hand upon him.” (so that he might deliver him out of their hand and restore him to his father)