²¹ But ^(A)Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands, and said, “Let us not kill him.”

²² And Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit which is in the wilderness, and do not lay a hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hands, and bring him back to his father.

²⁹ Then Reuben returned to the pit, and indeed Joseph was not in the pit; and he ^(A)tore his clothes.