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RBT Translation:
And Behold-Builder is saying toward them, `We do not pour out blood. Throw אֶת-him toward the Cistern of This one which is in the Wilderness, and do not send out a hand in him.`—to the purpose to snatch אֶת-him from their hand, to turn him back toward his father.
LITV Translation:
And Reuben said to them, Do not shed blood. Throw him into this pit in the desert, but do not lay a hand on him; so that he might deliver him from their hands, to return him to his father.
ESV Translation:
And Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood; throw him into this pit here in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him”—that he might rescue him out of their hand to restore him to his father.
Brenton Septuagint Translation:
And Reuben said to them, Shed not blood; cast him into one of these pits in the wilderness, but do not lay your hand upon him; that he might rescue him out of their hands, and restore him to his father.

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