Genesis 34:25-31

25On the third day, when they were sore, two of the sons of Jacob, ^aSimeon and Levi, ^bDinah’s brothers, took their swords and came against the city while it felt secure and killed all the males. 26They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house and went away. 27The sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. 28They took their flocks and their herds, their donkeys, and whatever was in the city and in the field. 29All their wealth, all their little ones and their wives, all that was in the houses, they captured and plundered.

30Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, ^c“You have brought trouble on me ^dby making me stink to the inhabitants of the land, ^ethe Canaanites and the Perizzites. ^fMy numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.” 31But they said, “Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?”

Genesis 35:22

22While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and ^glay with Bilhah his father’s concubine. And Israel heard of it.

Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

Genesis 37:18-32

18They saw him from afar, and before he came near to them ^hthey conspired against him to kill him. 19They said to one another, “Here comes this dreamer. 20Come now, ⁱlet us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. ▼

▼Or cisterns; also verses 22, 24

Then we will say that a fierce animal has devoured him, and we will see what will become of his dreams.” 21But when ^kReuben heard it, he rescued him out of their hands, saying, “Let us not take his life.” 22And Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood; throw him into this pit here in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him”— ^lthat he might rescue him out of their hand to restore him to his father. 23So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, ^mthe robe of many colors that he wore. 24And they took him and ⁿthrew him into a pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it.

25Then they sat down to eat. And looking up they saw a ^ocaravan of ^pIshmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing ^qgum, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry it down to Egypt. 26Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it ^rif we kill our brother and conceal his blood? 27Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and ^slet not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And his brothers listened to him. 28Then ^tMidianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and ^usold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels ▼

▼A  shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams

of silver. They took Joseph to Egypt.

29When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he ^wtore his clothes 30and returned to his brothers and said, “The boy ^xis gone, and I, where shall I go?” 31Then they took ^yJoseph’s robe and slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe in the blood. 32And they sent the robe of many colors and brought it to their father and said, “This we have found; please identify whether it is your son’s robe or not.”

Genesis 38:16-18

16He turned to her at the roadside and said, “Come, let me come in to you,” for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?” 17He answered, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” And she said, “If you give me a pledge, until you send it—” 18He said, “What pledge shall I give you?” She replied, ^z“Your signet and your cord and your staff that is in your hand.” So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she conceived by him.

Joshua 22:22-29

22“The Mighty One, ^aaGod, the Lord! The Mighty One, God, the Lord! ^abHe knows; and let Israel itself know! If it was in rebellion or in breach of faith against the Lord, do not spare us today 23for building an altar to turn away from following the Lord. Or if we did so to offer burnt offerings or grain offerings or peace offerings on it, may the Lord himself ^actake vengeance. 24No, but we did it from fear that ^adin time to come your children might say to our children, ‘What have you to do with the Lord, the God of Israel? 25For the Lord has made the Jordan a boundary between us and you, you people of Reuben and people of Gad. You have no portion in the Lord.’ So your children might make our children cease to worship the Lord. 26Therefore we said, ‘Let us now build an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice, 27but to be ^aea witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we ^afdo perform the service of the Lord in his presence with our burnt offerings and sacrifices and peace offerings, so your children will not say to our children in time to come, “You have no portion in the Lord.”’ 28And we thought, ‘If this should be said to us or to our descendants in time to come, we should say, “Behold, the copy of the altar of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifice, but to be ^aga witness between us and you.”’ 29Far be it from us that we should ^ahrebel against the Lord and turn away this day from following the Lord ^aiby building an altar for burnt offering, grain offering, or sacrifice, other than the altar of the Lord our God that stands before his tabernacle!”

2 Samuel 20:20

20Joab answered, “Far be it from me, far be it, that I should ^ajswallow up or destroy!