Thematic Bible: Intercedes for joseph's life when his brothers were about to kill him, and proposes that they sell him to the ishmaelites

Then said Judah to his brethren, "What availeth it that we slay our brother, and keep his blood secret? Come on, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hands be defiled upon him: for he is our brother and our flesh." And his brethren were content.