Genesis 37:21 KJV — MannaFest

Genesis 37:21

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

KJV

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ASV

And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, Let us not take his life.

WEB

When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue Joseph from their hands. “Let us not take his life,” he said.

YLT

And Reuben heareth, and delivereth him out of their hand, and saith, `Let us not smite the life;'

DBT

And Reuben heard [it], and delivered him out of their hand, and said, Let us not take his life.

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Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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Genesis 42:22
And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
Genesis 29:32
And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the Lord hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.
Luke 23:51
(The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.
Genesis 35:22
And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
Genesis 9:5
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.

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Joseph was here a type of Christ. Though he was the beloved Son of his Father, and hated by a wicked world; yet the Father sent him out of his bosom to visit us; he came from heaven to earth to seek and save us; yet then malicious plots were laid against him; he came to his own, and his own not only received him not, but consulted, This is the heir, come let us kill him.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

Reuben's temper seems to have been soft and effeminate, which had betrayed him to the sin of uncleanness; while the temper of the next two brothers, Simeon and Levi, was fierce, which betrayed them to the sin of murder, a sin which Reuben startled at the thought of.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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GEN 37:21MAT 10:28 LUK 12:4-5
GEN 37:21MAT 10:28 ISA 8:12-13
GEN 37:21MAT 10:28 REV 2:10
GEN 37:21MAT 10:28 JAS 4:12
GEN 37:21MAT 10:28 ROM 8:35-39
GEN 37:21GEN 42:22 PSA 9:12
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
GEN 37:21GEN 9:5 EXO 21:28-29
GEN 37:21GEN 35:22 1CH 5:1

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