Genesi 37:20

Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.

Ver. 20. And we will say.] So they consult, to cover their murder with a lie. One sin admitted makes way for another. He that hath fallen down one rung of hell's ladder, knows not where he shall stop, till he break his neck at the bottom.