Genesis 37:26
Good News Translation
Judah said to his brothers, "What will we gain by killing our brother and covering up the murder?

New Revised Standard Version
Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

Contemporary English Version
So Judah said, "What will we gain if we kill our brother and hide his body?

New American Bible
Judah said to his brothers: “What is to be gained by killing our brother and concealing his blood?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Juda said to his brethren: What will it profit us to kill our brother, and conceal his blood?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Juda said to his brethren: What will it profit us to kill our brother, and conceal his blood?

What profit.

Genesis 25:32 He answered: Lo I die, what will the first birthright avail me?

Psalm 30:9 What profit is there in my blood, whilst I go down to corruption? Shall dust confess to thee, or declare thy truth?

Jeremiah 41:8 But ten men were found among them, that said to Ismahel: Kill us not: for we have stores in the field, of wheat, and barley, and oil, and honey. And he forbore, and slew them not with their brethren.

Matthew 16:26 For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?

Romans 6:21 What fruit therefore had you then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death.

conceal.

Genesis 37:20 Come, let us kill him, and cast him into some old pit: and we will say: Some evil beast hath devoured him: and then it shall appear what his dreams avail him:

Genesis 4:10 And he said to him: What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the earth.

Deuteronomy 17:8 If thou perceive that there be among you a hard and doubtful matter in judgment between blood and blood, cause and cause, leprosy and leprosy: and thou see that the words of the judges within thy gates do vary: arise, and go up to the place, which the Lord thy God shall choose.

2 Samuel 1:16 And David said to him: Thy blood be upon thy own head: for thy own mouth hath spoken against thee, saying: I have slain the Lord's anointed.

Job 16:18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, neither let my cry find a hiding place in thee.

Ezekiel 24:7 For her blood is in the midst of her, she hath shed it upon the smooth rock: she hath not shed it upon the ground, that it might be covered with dust.

Context
Joseph Sold by His Brothers
25And sitting down to eat bread, they saw some Ismaelites on their way coming from Galaad, with their camels, carrying spices, and balm, and myrrh to Egypt. 26And Juda said to his brethren: What will it profit us to kill our brother, and conceal his blood?27It is better that he be sold to the Ismaelites, and that our hands be not defiled: for he is our brother and our flesh. His brethren agreed to his words.…
Cross References
Genesis 37:20
Come, let us kill him, and cast him into some old pit: and we will say: Some evil beast hath devoured him: and then it shall appear what his dreams avail him:

Genesis 40:15
For I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here without any fault was cast into the dungeon.

Genesis 42:21
And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is this affliction come upon us.

Genesis 50:20
You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people.

Jeremiah 36:25
But yet Elnathan, and Dalaias, and Gamarias spoke to the king, not to burn the book: and he heard them not.

Genesis 37:25
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