Genesis 37:22-24

The Voice

²²We don’t need to shed any blood to be free of him. Let’s just toss him into some pit here in the wilderness. We don’t need to lay a hand on him.

Reuben thought perhaps he could secretly come back later and get Joseph out of the pit and take him home to their father before any more harm came to him.

The brothers agreed. ²³When Joseph arrived, they ripped his robe off of him—the fancy, colorful^[a] robe he always wore that his father had made for him, ²⁴and they threw him into the pit. Now this pit happened to be an empty cistern; there was no water in it.

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