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

New Living Translation
Then they grabbed him and threw him into the cistern. Now 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.

Berean Study Bible
and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, with 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.

NASB 1995
and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, without any water in it.

NASB 1977
and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, without any water in it.

Amplified Bible
then they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty; there was no water in it.

Christian Standard Bible
Then they took him and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty, without water.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then they took him and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it.

Contemporary English Version
and threw him into a dry well.

Good News Translation
Then they took him and threw him into the well, which was dry.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then they took him and put him into an empty cistern. It had 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.)

NET Bible
Then they took him and threw him into the cistern. (Now the cistern was empty; there was no water in it.)
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

New King James Version
Then they took him and cast him into a pit. And the pit was empty; there was no water in it.

King James 2000 Bible
And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

New Heart English Bible
And they took him and threw him into the cistern. (Now 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 King James Version
And they took him, and cast him into a 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.

A Faithful Version
And they took him and threw him into a pit. And the pit was empty with no water in it.

Darby Bible Translation
and they took him and cast him into the pit; now the pit was empty -- there was no water in it.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty; there was no water in it.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And they tooke him, and cast him into a pit, and the pit was emptie, without water in it.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And they toke hym, and cast hym into an emptie pit, wherein was no water.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
& toke him and cast him in to a pytt. But the same pytt was emptye, and no water in it,

Tyndale Bible of 1526
and they toke him and cast him in to a pytt: But the pytt was emptie and had no water therein.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and take him and cast him into the pit, and the pit [is] empty, there is 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.

Smith's Literal Translation
And they will take him and will throw him into the pit; and the pit empty; water not in it.

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
and they cast him into an old cistern, which held no water.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And they took him and they threw him into the pit, and the pit was empty and there was no water in it.

Lamsa Bible
And they took him, and threw him into a pit; and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
and they took him, and cast him into the pit--and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

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
















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