Genesis 37:24
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, with no water in it.”
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“and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, with no water in it.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.”
King James Version · Public Domain“and they took him, and cast him into the pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and take him and cast him into the pit, and the pit <FI>is<Fi> empty, there is no water in it.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 37:24 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 42:21Then they said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”
- Psalms 35:7For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.
- 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.
- Psalms 130:1Out of the depths I cry to You, O LORD!
- 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 Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
- Lamentations 3:52Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.
- 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.”
- Zechariah 9:11As for you,because of the blood of My covenant,I will release your prisonersfrom the waterless pit.
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