Genesis 37:26
And Judah says to his brothers, “What gain when we slay our brother, and have concealed his blood?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 4:9And YHWH says to Cain, “Where [is] your brother Abel?” And he says, “I have not known; am I my brother’s keeper?”
Genesis 25:32And Esau says, “Behold, I am going to die, and what is this to me—a birthright?”
Deuteronomy 17:8When anything is too hard for you for judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke—matters of strife within your gates—then you have risen and gone up to the place on which your God YHWH fixes,
Job 16:18O earth, do not cover my blood! And let there not be a place for my cry.
Jeremiah 41:8And ten men have been found among them, and they say to Ishmael, “Do not put us to death, for we have things hidden in the field—wheat, and barley, and oil, and honey.” And he refrains, and has not put them to death in the midst of their brothers.
Matthew 16:26for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? Or what will a man give as an exchange for his life?
Matthew Henry on Genesis 37:24-31
23 And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him; 24 And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it. 25 And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt. 26 And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if… Read the whole commentary →