Genesis 37:27

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 33:12

33:12 Then Esau ³  said, “Let’s be on our way! ⁴  I will go in front of you.”

Genesis 37:21

37:21 When Reuben heard this, he rescued Joseph ⁵  from their hands, ⁶  saying, ⁷  “Let’s not take his life!” ⁸ 

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

² tn Heb “listened.”

³ tn Heb “and he”; the referent (Esau) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “let us travel and let us go.” The two cohortatives are used in combination with the sense, “let’s travel along, get going, be on our way.”

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

⁶ sn From their hands. The instigators of this plot may have been the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah (see v. 2).

⁷ tn Heb “and he said.”

⁸ tn Heb “we must not strike him down [with respect to] life.”