Holy Scripture
Genesis 37:20
A church father on this verse
“Every kind of honour and happiness was bestowed upon you, and then was fulfilled that which is written, "My beloved ate and drank, and was enlarged and became fat, and kicked." [Deuteronomy 32:15] Hence flowed emulation and envy, strife and sedition, persecution and disorder, war and captivity. So the worthless rose u…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
20Now then come, let us kill him, and cast him into one of the pits; and we will say, An evil wild beast has devoured him; and we shall see what his dreams will be.
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In context
18And they spied him from a distance before he drew nigh to them, and they wickedly took counsel to slay him.
19And each said to his brother, Behold, that dreamer comes.
— Genesis 37:20 —
21And Reuben having heard it, rescued him out of their hands, and said, Let us not kill him.
22And Reuben said to them, Shed not blood; cast him into one of these pits in the wilderness, but do not lay your hand upon him; that he might rescue him out of their hands, and restore him to his father.