And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
and they took him, and cast him into the pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.
WEB
and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, with 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.
DBT
and they took him and cast him into the pit; now the pit was empty — there was no water in it.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentGenesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
- Author
- Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
- Date
- Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)