Parsha Paradise/פרשה פרדס - Vayeishev: What Was/Wasn't in the Pit? 🚱🐍🦂📜

When describing the pit which Yosef was thrown into, the Torah elaborates: 'V'HaBor Reik Ein Bo Mayim'-'And the pit was empty; there was no water in it' [Bereishis 37:24].     The famous question is why the Torah saw value in emphasizing that the pit had no water if it already told us that the pit was empty. Chazal famously suggest that, indeed, the pit was really only empty from water, but maybe had other contents. If so, what was in the pit? How would you know that? And why would the Torah describe the pit as empty? What really was and wasn't in the pit? *Correction: Scorpions are not reptiles, but arachnids.