Genesis 37:24

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

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

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

And cast him into an old pit, where there was no water.

GNV

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

JPS

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

LXXE

And they took him and cast him into the pit; and the pit was empty, it had not water.

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Original-language editions

WLC

וַיִּ֨קָּחֻ֔הוּ וַיַּשְׁלִ֥כוּ אֹת֖וֹ הַבֹּ֑רָה וְהַבּ֣וֹר רֵ֔ק אֵ֥ין בּ֖וֹ מָֽיִם׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ λαβόντες αὐτὸν, ἔῤῥιψαν εἰς τὸν λάκκον· ὁ δὲ λάκκος κενὸς, ὕδωρ οὐκ εἶχε.

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• Jeremiah 38:6So 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…
• Zechariah 9:11As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.
• Psalms 130:1–2Out of the depths I cry to You, O LORD! O Lord, hear my voice; let Your ears be attentive to my plea for mercy.
• Psalms 40:2He 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.
• Psalms 88:6You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.
• Psalms 88:8You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
• Lamentations 3:52–55Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird. They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me. The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die. I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the…
• Lamentations 4:20The 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.”
• Psalms 35:7For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.

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