Parallel Verses
Amplified
then they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty; there was no water in it.
New American Standard Bible
and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, without any water in it.
King James Version
And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.
Holman Bible
Then they took him and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it.
International Standard Version
They grabbed him and tossed him into the cistern, but the cistern was empty. (There was no water in it.)
A Conservative Version
and they took him, and cast him into the pit. And 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.
Bible in Basic English
And they took him and put him in the hole: now the hole had no 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.
Julia Smith Translation
And they will take him and will throw him into the pit; and the pit empty; water not in it
King James 2000
And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And they took him and threw him into the pit (the pit [was] empty; there was no water in it).
Modern King James verseion
And they took him and threw him into a pit. And the pit was empty, with no water in it.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and they took him and cast him into a pit. But the pit was empty and had no water therein.
NET Bible
Then they took him and threw him into the cistern. (Now the cistern was empty; there was no water in it.)
New Heart English Bible
and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.
The Emphasized Bible
and took him, and cast him into the pit, but the pit, was empty, there was in it no water.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
and take him and cast him into the pit, and the pit is empty, there is no water in it.
Themes
Bible stories for children » The boy captive who became prime minister
Bible stories for children » The beautiful coat
Jealousy » Instances of » Joseph's brothers, of joseph
Joseph » Son of jacob » His father's partiality for, excites the jealousy of his brethren
Reuben » Adroitly seeks to save joseph from the conspiracy of his brothers
Interlinear
Laqach
Shalak
Mayim
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 37:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
Joseph Sold Into Slavery
23
Now when Joseph reached his brothers, they stripped him of his tunic, the [distinctive]
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 38:6
So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the
Psalm 35:7
For without cause they hid their net for me;
Without cause they dug a pit [of destruction] for my life.
Psalm 40:2
He brought me up out of a horrible pit [of tumult and of destruction], out of the miry clay,
And He set my feet upon a rock, steadying my footsteps and establishing my path.
Psalm 88:6
You have laid me in the lowest pit,
In dark places, in the depths.
Psalm 88:8
You have put my friends far from me;
You have made me an
I am shut up and I cannot go out.
Psalm 130:1-2
Lamentations 3:52-55
Without cause my enemies
Hunted me down like a bird;
Lamentations 4:20
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord [our king],
Was captured in their snares,
He of whom we had said, “Under his shadow
We shall live among the nations.”
Zechariah 9:11
As for you also, because of the blood of My covenant with you [My chosen people, the covenant that was sealed with blood]
I have freed your prisoners from the waterless pit.