“and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Genesis 37 contains 36 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.