And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.
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Gill's Exposition
And they sat down to eat bread,.... Not at all concerned at what they had done, nor in the least grieved for the affliction of Joseph, and without any pity and compassion for him in his distress, but…
- Joseph Was Sold into Egypt 17. דתין dotayı̂n Dothain, “two wells?” (Gesenius) 25. נכאת neko't “tragacanth” or goat’s-thorn gum, yielded by the “astragalus gummifer”, a native of Mount Lebanon. צרי…
We have here the execution of their plot against Joseph. 1. They stripped him, each striving to seize the envied coat of many colours, Gen 37:23. Thus, in imagination, they degraded him from the…
Cambridge Bible
the pit was empty Cf. the incident in the life of Jeremiah (Jer 38:6). Presumably this was the reason why Reuben proposes to "cast him into this pit" (Gen 37:37).
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