³⁷ And Reuben said, Put my two sons to death if I do not come back to you with him; let him be in my care and I will give him safely back to you.

⁹ And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi;

⁹ Truly, if we had not let the time go by, we might have come back again by now.

³² For I made myself responsible for the boy to my father, saying, If I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.

³³ So now let me be my lord's servant here in place of the boy, and let him go back with his brothers.

³⁴ For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?

⁷ Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of sheep or with ten thousand rivers of oil? am I to give my first child for my wrongdoing, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?