Genesis 37:20-22

20Now then, come and let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits; and 1we will say, ‘A wild beast devoured him.’ Then let us see what will become of his dreams!”

21But 2Reuben heard this and rescued him out of their hands and said, “Let us not 3take his life.”

22Reuben further said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but do not lay hands on him”--that he might rescue him out of their hands, to restore him to his father.