Gen 37:21, Deu 19:11, Jer 40:14-15 | ESV | STEP | But when Reuben heard it, he rescued him out of their hands , saying , Let us not take his life .

b ch. 27:24; Ex. 21:12, 14; See Num. 35:16-21

Genesis 37:21

21 But when ^aReuben heard it, he rescued him out of their hands, saying, “Let us not take his life.”

Deuteronomy 19:11

11 “But if anyone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and attacks him ^band strikes him fatally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities,

Jeremiah 40:14-15

14 and said to him, “Do you know that Baalis the king of ^cthe Ammonites has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life?” But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam would not believe them. 15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah at Mizpah, “Please let me go and strike down Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no one will know it. Why should he take your life, so that all the Judeans who are gathered about you would be scattered, ^dand the remnant of Judah would perish?”