Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
And Judah saith unto his brethren, 'What gain when we slay our brother, and have concealed his blood?
New American Standard Bible
Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it for us to kill our brother and
King James Version
And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?
Holman Bible
Then Judah said to his brothers, “What do we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?
International Standard Version
Then Judah suggested to his brothers, "Where's the profit in just killing our brother and shedding his blood?
A Conservative Version
And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
American Standard Version
And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood?
Amplified
Judah said to his brothers, “What do we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood (murder)?
Bible in Basic English
And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is there in putting our brother to death and covering up his blood?
Darby Translation
And Judah said to his brethren, What profit is it that we kill our brother and secrete his blood?
Julia Smith Translation
And Judah will say to his brethren, What the profit that we shall kill our brother, and conceal his blood?
King James 2000
And Judah said unto his brothers, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit [is there] if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
Modern King James verseion
And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is it if we should kill our brother and hide his blood?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Then said Judah to his brethren, "What availeth it that we slay our brother, and keep his blood secret?
NET Bible
Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is there if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?
New Heart English Bible
Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
The Emphasized Bible
So Judah said unto his brethren, - What profit that we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?
Webster
And Judah said to his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood.
World English Bible
Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
Themes
Bible stories for children » The boy captive who became prime minister
Bible stories for children » The beautiful coat
intercession » Instances of » Judah for joseph
Ishmaelites » Merchants of, buy joseph
Jealousy » Instances of » Joseph's brothers, of joseph
Joseph » Son of jacob » His father's partiality for, excites the jealousy of his brethren
Reuben » Adroitly seeks to save joseph from the conspiracy of his brothers
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 37:26
Verse Info
Context Readings
Joseph Sold Into Slavery
25 And they sit down to eat bread, and they lift up their eyes, and look, and lo, a company of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, and their camels bearing spices, and balm, and myrrh, going to take them down to Egypt. 26 And Judah saith unto his brethren, 'What gain when we slay our brother, and have concealed his blood? 27 Come, and we sell him to the Ishmaelites, and our hands are not on him, for he is our brother -- our flesh;' and his brethren hearken.
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Cross References
Genesis 37:20
and now, come, and we slay him, and cast him into one of the pits, and have said, An evil beast hath devoured him; and we see what his dreams are.'
Genesis 4:10
And He saith, 'What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood is crying unto Me from the ground;
Genesis 25:32
And Esau saith, 'Lo, I am going to die, and what is this to me -- birthright?'
Deuteronomy 17:8
When anything is too hard for thee for judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke -- matters of strife within thy gates -- then thou hast risen, and gone up unto the place on which Jehovah thy God doth fix,
2 Samuel 1:16
and David saith unto him, 'Thy blood is on thine own head, for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I -- I put to death the anointed of Jehovah.'
Job 16:18
O earth, do not thou cover my blood! And let there not be a place for my cry.
Psalm 30:9
What gain is in my blood? In my going down unto corruption? Doth dust thank Thee? doth it declare Thy truth?
Jeremiah 41:8
And ten men have been found among them, and they say unto Ishmael, 'Do not put us to death, for we have things hidden in the field -- wheat, and barley, and oil, and honey.' And he forbeareth, and hath not put them to death in the midst of their brethren.
Ezekiel 24:7
For her blood in her midst hath been, On a clear place of a rock she hath set it, She hath not poured it on the earth, To cover it over with dust.
Matthew 16:26
for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?
Romans 6:21
what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those is death.