The interpretation timeline

Gen 37:24

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Gen 37:24 · Douay-Rheims

“And cast him into an old pit, where there was no water.”

Scholastic c. 1100 – 1500

1105

A.D.

Rashi Jewish

1040–1105

“והבור רק אין בו מים AND THE PIT WAS EMPTY, THERE WAS NO WATER IN IT — Since it states, “the pit was empty”, do I not know that “there was no water in it”? What then is the force of “there was no water in it”? Water, indeed it did not contain, but there were serpents and scorpions in it (Shabbat 22a).”

Source

Modern · 1953 →

The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.