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

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.

²² By so much is it a better agreement which we have through Jesus.

¹⁸ If he has done you any wrong or is in debt to you for anything, put it to my account.

¹⁹ I, Paul, writing this myself, say, I will make payment to you: and I do not say to you that you are in debt to me even for your life.

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.

⁸ When I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly overtake you; and you say nothing to make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his way; death will overtake that evil man in his evil-doing, but I will make you responsible for his blood.

⁶ But if the watchman sees the sword coming, and does not give a note on the horn, and the people have no word of the danger, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them; he will be taken away in his sin, but I will make the watchman responsible for his blood.

²⁰ Again, when an upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, and I put a cause of falling in his way, death will overtake him: because you have given him no word of his danger, death will overtake him in his evil-doing, and there will be no memory of the upright acts which he has done; but I will make you responsible for his blood.

¹⁸ When I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly be your fate; and you give him no word of it and say nothing to make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his evil way, so that he may be safe; that same evil man will come to death in his evil-doing; but I will make you responsible for his blood.

¹²² Take your servant's interests into your keeping; let me not be crushed by the men of pride.

³ Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine.

²¹ For as things are, it will come about, when my lord the king is sleeping with his fathers, that I and Solomon my son will be made outlaws.

³⁹ Anything which was wounded by beasts I did not take to you, but myself made up for the loss of it; you made me responsible for whatever was taken by thieves, by day or by night.

⁵ And for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment; from every beast I will take it, and from every man will I take payment for the blood of his brother-man.

⁵⁰ So that punishment may come on this generation for the blood of all the prophets which was given from the earliest days;