Genesis 37:26-27

37:26 Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is there if we kill our brother and cover up his blood? 37:27 Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, but let’s not lay a hand on him, ¹  for after all, he is our brother, our own flesh.” His brothers agreed. ² 

Genesis 37:35

37:35 All his sons and daughters stood by ³  him to console him, but he refused to be consoled. “No,” he said, “I will go to the grave mourning my son.” ⁴  So Joseph’s ⁵  father wept for him.

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¹ tn Heb “let not our hand be upon him.”

² tn Heb “listened.”

³ tn Heb “arose, stood”; which here suggests that they stood by him in his time of grief.

⁴ tn Heb “and he said, ‘Indeed I will go down to my son mourning to Sheol.’” Sheol was viewed as the place where departed spirits went after death.

⁵ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Joseph) has been specified in the translation for clarity.