And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s [shed] blood from your hand.

Those which entered, male and female of all flesh (creatures), entered as God had commanded Noah; and the Lord closed the door behind him.

“Whoever sheds man’s blood [unlawfully],
By man (judicial government) shall his blood be shed,
For in the image of God
He made man.

But Lot went out of the doorway to the men, and shut the door after him,

But the men (angels) reached out with their hands and pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door [after him].

Suppose my father touches me and feels my skin; then I will be seen by him as a cheat (imposter), and I will bring his curse on me and not a blessing.”

Why did you run away secretly and deceive me and not tell me, so that [otherwise] I might have sent you away with joy and with songs, with [music on the] tambourine and lyre?

Reuben said to them, “Do not shed his blood, but [instead] throw him [alive] into the pit that is here in the wilderness, and do not lay a hand on him [to kill him]”—[he said this so] that he could rescue him from them and return him [safely] to his father.

“The [skilled] archers have bitterly attacked and provoked him;
They have shot [at him] and harassed him.