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Quant aux Madianites, ils le vendirent en Égypte à Putiphar, officier de Pharaon, chef des gardes.
Miqra according to the Masorah · Licence: CC BY-SA · Source
Bible du Rabbinat 1899 [fr] · Licence: Public Domain · Source
Genèse 37:24 dans toutes les traductions
English · Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009
They took him and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it.
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English · The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein
And they took him and cast him into a pit, and the pit was empty; there was no water in it, [but there were snakes and scorpions in it.]
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עברית · Miqra according to the Masorah
וַיִּ֨קָּחֻ֔הוּ וַיַּשְׁלִ֥כוּ אֹת֖וֹ הַבֹּ֑רָה וְהַבּ֣וֹר רֵ֔ק אֵ֥ין בּ֖וֹ מָֽיִם׃
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English · The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation (JPS 1917)
and they took him, and cast him into the pit—and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.
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עברית · Tanach with Ta'amei Hamikra
וַיִּ֨קָּחֻ֔הוּ וַיַּשְׁלִ֥כוּ אֹת֖וֹ הַבֹּ֑רָה וְהַבּ֣וֹר רֵ֔ק אֵ֥ין בּ֖וֹ מָֽיִם׃
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Français · Bible du Rabbinat 1899 [fr]
et ils le saisirent et ils le jetèrent dans la citerne. Cette citerne était vide et sans eau.
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Deutsch · Die fünf Bücher Moses, trans. Dr. J. Wohlgemuth, Rödelheim 1899 [de]
Und sie nahmen ihn und warfen ihn in die Grube; die Grube aber war leer, es war kein Wasser darin.
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English · Sefaria Community Translation
and took him and cast him into the pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it.
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English · Modernized Tanakh - Based on JPS 1917, Edited by Adam Cohn
and they took him, and cast him into the pit - and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.
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עברית · Tanach with Text Only
ויקחהו וישלכו אתו הברה והבור רק אין בו מים
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עברית · Tanach with Nikkud
וַיִּקָּחֻהוּ וַיַּשְׁלִכוּ אֹתוֹ הַבֹּרָה וְהַבּוֹר רֵק אֵין בּוֹ מָיִם׃
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ייִדיש · Yehoyesh's Yiddish Tanakh Translation [yi]
און זײ האָבן אים גענומען, און האָבן אים אַרײַנגעװאָרפֿן אין דער גרוב. און די גרוב איז געװען לײדיק, קײן װאַסער איז אין איר ניט געװען.
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Deutsch · Der Pentateuch, übersetzt und erläutert von Samson Raphael Hirsch. Frankfurt am Main, 1867-1878 [de]
nahmen ihn, und warfen ihn in die Grube. Die Grube war aber leer, es war kein Wasser darin.
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Esperanto · La Malnova Testamento, L.L.Zamenhof [eo]
kaj ili prenis lin kaj ĵetis lin en la puton; sed la puto estis malplena, akvo ne estis en ĝi.
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Italiano · Il Pentateuco. Traduzione italiana di Samuel David Luzzatto, 1872 [it]
E presolo, lo gittarono nella cisterna, e la cisterna era vuota, non c’era acqua.
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Polski · Bible in Polish, trans. Izaak Cylkow, 1841 - 1908 [pl]
I wzięli go, i wrzucili do dołu; a dół ten był próżny: nie było w nim wody.
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Commentaires sur Genèse 37:24
Rashi
English
Since the verse says "the pit was empty", did I not already know that it didn't contain water? So what is the verse trying to communicate by pointing out that it does not contain water - namely, that while it doesn't contain water, there is something that it DOES contain: snakes and scorpions.
Sefaria Community Translation · Licence: CC0 · Commentaire complet sur Sefaria
Targum Jonathan
English
and took and threw him into the pit; but the pit was empty, no water was therein, but serpents and scorpions were in it.
The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862 · Licence: Public Domain · Commentaire complet sur Sefaria
Rashbam
English
אין בו מים. If the pit had been full of water the brothers would not have thrown him into the pit, as they then would have been guilty of drowning him, i.e. killing him with their own hands, as it were. They had said themselves “let not our hands be on him.”
Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash · Licence: CC-BY · Commentaire complet sur Sefaria
Radak (David Kimhi)
English
ויקחהו, there is a letter ו missing in this word, making it appear as if only one brother took him. According to Bereshit Rabbah 84,16 this is an allusion to who the brother was who seized Joseph and threw him into the pit. It was Shimon, which was the reason why later on Joseph locked up Shimon as a hostage (42,24 ויקח מאתם את שמעון, he took Shimon from them.)
אין בו מים. If there had been water in the pit, Joseph would have drowned and throwing him into the pit would have been outright murder. The reason why the Torah mentions that there was no water in the pit, having already said that the pit was empty, והבור ריק, could be that there was sticky mud inside it, as for instance in Jeremiah 38,6 where the King’s servants threw the prophet into טיט, meaning a slime pit. That pit is also described as devoid of water, although Jeremiah is described as sinking into the mud. However, it did not cause his death. The allegorical explanation of the sequence of the words in our verse is well known, i.e. though water, one lethal ingredient, was not present in that pit, other potentially worse dangers such as scorpions, etc., were. If this explanation corresponds to the facts, throwing Joseph into such a pit was no better than killing him. The brothers had no way of knowing that G’d would save him by a miracle, i.e. that the scorpions and snakes would not attack him.
Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash · Licence: CC-BY · Commentaire complet sur Sefaria
Da'at Zekenim
English
והבור רק אי בו מים, “the pit was empty, not containing any water.” Rashi comments that this is to tell us that while there was no water in the pit in which he could have drowned, there were other hazardous inhabitants in that pit such as snakes and scorpions. (based on B’reshit Rabbah 84,16.) This interpretation is based on the principle that when two negatives follow one another this indicates that we are being told something positive, even if not beneficial. It would have sufficed to describe the pit as simply: “empty.” If you were to ask why did it have to refer to the presence of scorpions? What hint is there of that? Maybe there were merely stones inside the pit? The expression רק for empty, instead of ריק means that it was empty on occasion but filled with water at other times. Scorpions take refuge there when it has been emptied from water.
Daat Zekenim translated by Rb. Eliyahu Munk · Licence: CC-BY · Commentaire complet sur Sefaria