'Killing' in the Bible

Eventually, what Rebekah's older son Esau had been saying was reported to her, so she sent for her younger son Jacob and warned him, "Look! Your brother is planning to get even by killing you.

When Reuben heard about it, he tried to save Joseph from their plot. "Let's not do any killing,"

Then Judah suggested to his brothers, "Where's the profit in just killing our brother and shedding his blood?