Genesis 37:21-23

21st Century King James Version

²¹ And Reuben heard it, and 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 pit 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.

²³ And it came to pass, when Joseph had come unto his brethren, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, his coat of many colors that was on him;