²⁶ Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

²⁰ Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."

¹⁰ Yahweh said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.

²¹ What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

²⁶ For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

⁷ For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the bare rock; she didn't pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.

⁸ But ten men were found among those who said to Ishmael, Don't kill us; for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he stopped, and didn't kill them among their brothers.

⁹ "What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

¹⁸ "Earth, don't cover my blood, Let my cry have no place to rest.

¹⁶ David said to him, Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, I have slain Yahweh's anointed.

⁸ If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then shall you arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose;

³² Esau said, "Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?"