Genesis 37:26
Genesis chapter 37 · verse 26 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood?
KJV
King James Version · 1611And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood?
Context
v.25And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
v.26This passage
v.27Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brethren hearkened unto him.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 30:9
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
- Genesis 37:20
Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, An evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
- Job 16:18
O earth, cover not thou my blood, And let my cry have noresting-place.
- Deuteronomy 17:8
If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates; then shalt thou arise, and get thee up unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose;
- 2 Samuel 1:16
And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain Jehovah’s anointed.
- Romans 6:21
What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.