Genesis 37:21-23

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²¹ But when Reuben heard it, he delivered him out of their hands, saying, “Let us not take his life.”^{(A) 22} Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood; throw him into this pit here in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he might rescue him out of their hand and restore him to his father. ²³ So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the ornamented robe^[a] that he wore,