Discovery BoxGenesis 37:27 
Context37:27 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
Context33:12 Then Esau 3 said, “Let’s be on our way! 4 I will go in front of you.”
Genesis 37:21
Context37:21 When Reuben heard this, he rescued Joseph 5 from their hands, 6 saying, 7 “Let’s not take his life!” 8
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.”
