Genesis 37:24 and they took him and threw him into the cistern. The cistern was empty; there was no water in it.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
and they took him and threw him into the cistern. The cistern was empty; there was no water in it.

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

Holman Christian Standard 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.)

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And cast him into an old pit, where there was no water.

Darby Bible 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.

Cross References

Genesis 37:23
And it came to pass, when Joseph was come to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colors that was on him;

Genesis 37:25
And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

37:23-30 They threw Joseph into a pit, to perish there with hunger and cold; so cruel were their tender mercies. They slighted him when he was in distress, and were not grieved for the affliction of Joseph, see Am 6:6; for when he was pining in the pit, they sat down to eat bread. They felt no remorse of conscience for the sin. But the wrath of man shall praise God, and the remainder of wrath he will restrain, Ps 76:10. Joseph's brethren were wonderfully restrained from murdering him, and their selling him as wonderfully turned to God's praise.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

23. they stripped Joseph out of his coat … of many colors—Imagine him advancing in all the unsuspecting openness of brotherly affection. How astonished and terrified must he have been at the cold reception, the ferocious aspect, the rough usage of his unnatural assailants! A vivid picture of his state of agony and despair was afterwards drawn by themselves (compare Ge 42:21).