²² Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him"-- that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.

¹² He said, "Don't lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."

²² Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required."

¹¹ He didn't lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.

⁹ but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

²⁴ So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it."

¹ Now about that time, Herod the king stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.