Abimelech said, “I do not know who did this thing. Indeed, you did not tell me, and I did not hear of it until today.”

Reuben answered them, “Did I not tell you, ‘Do not sin against the boy’; and you would not listen? Now the accounting for his blood is required [of us for we are guilty of his death].”

But if you will not send him, we will not go down there; for the man said to us, ‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’”