Genesis 37:24 - Revised Standard Version CI

²⁴ and they took him and cast him into a pit. The pit was empty, there was no water in it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ and they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ Then they took him and cast him into the [well-like] pit which was empty; there was no water in it.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ and they took him, and cast him into the pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

Common English Bible

²⁴ took him, and threw him into the cistern, an empty cistern with no water in it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ and they cast him into an old cistern, which held no water.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ And cast him into an old pit, where there was no water.

Genesis 37:24 Cross References

Genesis 37:23

So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the long robe with sleeves that he wore;

Genesis 37:25

Then they sat down to eat; and looking up they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing gum, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry it down to Egypt.

Genesis 42:21

Then they said to one another, “In truth we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he besought us and we would not listen; therefore is this distress come upon us.”

Psalm 35:7

For without cause they hid their net for me; without cause they dug a pit for my life.

Psalm 40:2

He drew me up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.

Psalm 88:6

Thou hast put me in the depths of the Pit, in the regions dark and deep.

Psalm 88:8

Thou hast caused my companions to shun me; thou hast made me a thing of horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;

Jeremiah 38:6

So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king's son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. And there was no water in the cistern, but only mire, and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

Lamentations 4:20

The breath of our nostrils, the Lord's anointed, was taken in their pits, he of whom we 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, I will set your captives free from the waterless pit.