Genesis 37:24 “and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, w…”

Genesis 37:24

and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, with no water in it.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

World English Bible

and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.

American Standard Version

and they took him, and cast him into the pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

Geneva Bible 1599

And they tooke him, and cast him into a pit, and the pit was emptie, without water in it.

Darby Translation

and they took him and cast him into the pit; now the pit was empty — there was no water in it.

Young's Literal Translation

and take him and cast him into the pit, and the pit [is] empty, there is no water in it.

Bible in Basic English

And they took him and put him in the hole: now the hole had no water in it.

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Cross references

“and cast”

Psalm 35:7 Lamentations 4:20

Psalm 35:7 · BSB

For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.

Lamentations 4:20 · BSB

The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”

“the pit”

Jeremiah 38:6 Zechariah 9:11 Psalm 40:2 Psalm 88:6 Psalm 88:8 Lamentations 3:52–55

Jeremiah 38:6 · BSB

So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremia…

Zechariah 9:11 · BSB

As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.

Psalm 40:2 · BSB

He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.

Psalm 88:6 · BSB

You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.

Psalm 88:8 · BSB

You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.

Lamentations 3:52–55 · BSB

Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

23So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe—the robe of many colors he was wearing—

25And as they sat down to eat a meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh on their way down to Egypt.

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