Genesis 42:21-22

Joseph's Brothers Go to Egypt

²¹ Then they said to one another, _y "In truth we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us and we did not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us." ²² And Reuben answered them, _z "Did I not tell you not to sin against the boy? But you did not listen. So now _a there comes a reckoning for his blood."

1. Cross References
   Job 36:8 - 9
   And if they are bound in chains and caught in the cords of affliction.
   Genesis 37:23 - 28
   So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the robe of many colors that he wore.
   
2. Cross References
   Genesis 37:21
   But when Reuben heard it, he rescued him out of their hands, saying, "Let us not take his life.
   
3. Cross References
   Genesis 9:5
   And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.
   2 Chronicles 24:22
   Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada, Zechariah's father, had shown him, but killed his son. And when he was dying, he said, "May the Lord see and avenge!
   1 Kings 2:32
   The Lord will bring back his bloody deeds on his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men more righteous and better than himself, Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.
   Psalms 9:12
   For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
   Luke 11:50 - 51
   So that the blood of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation.