And He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.

So now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

“Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God He made man.

And Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit which is in the wilderness, and do not lay a hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hands, and bring him back to his father.

So Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is there if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

So they took Joseph’s tunic, killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the tunic in the blood.

And Reuben answered them, saying, “Did I not speak to you, saying, ‘Do not sin against the boy’; and you would not listen? Therefore behold, his blood is now required of us.”

Binding his donkey to the vine, And his donkey’s colt to the choice vine, He washed his garments in wine, And his clothes in the blood of grapes.