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Paul and Silas Imprisoned

Acts 16:24

In 9 translations

BSB
On receiving this order, he placed them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
KJV
Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
WEB
Having received such a command, he threw them into the inner prison and secured their feet in the stocks.
ASV
who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
LSV
who having received such a charge, put them into the inner prison, and fastened their feet in the stocks.
YLT
who such a charge having received, did put them to the inner prison, and their feet made fast in the stocks.
DBY
who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and secured their feet to the stocks.
DRC
Who having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
GNV
Who hauing receiued such commandement, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feete fast in the stockes.

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Where the editions differ

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  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read λαβὼν (“having received”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read εἰληφώς (“having received”).
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  • Word order: Textus Receptus, Byzantine text place ἠσφαλίσατο elsewhere in this verse.
SBLGNT apparatus (2)

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  • SBLGNT: λαβὼν. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read λαβὼν; Robinson–Pierpont read εἰληφώς.
  • SBLGNT: ἠσφαλίσατο αὐτῶν. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ἠσφαλίσατο αὐτῶν; Robinson–Pierpont read αὐτῶν ἠσφαλίσατο.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
ὃς παραγγελίαν τοιαύτην λαβὼν ἔβαλεν αὐτοὺς εἰς τὴν ἐσωτέραν φυλακὴν καὶ τοὺς πόδας ἠσφαλίσατο αὐτῶν εἰς τὸ ξύλον.
RP2018
ὅς, παραγγελίαν τοιαύτην εἰληφώς, ἔβαλεν αὐτοὺς εἰς τὴν ἐσωτέραν φυλακήν, καὶ τοὺς πόδας αὐτῶν ἠσφαλίσατο εἰς τὸ ξύλον.
TR-Boyd
ὅς, παραγγελίαν τοιαύτην εἰληφώς, ἔβαλεν αὐτοὺς εἰς τὴν ἐσωτέραν φυλακήν, καὶ τοὺς πόδας αὐτῶν ἠσφαλίσατο εἰς τὸ ξύλον.
SCR1894
ος παραγγελιαν τοιαυτην ειληφως εβαλεν αυτους εις την εσωτεραν φυλακην και τους ποδας αυτων ησφαλισατο εις το ξυλον

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  • Job 33:11He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’
  • Job 13:27You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
  • Jeremiah 29:26‘The LORD has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada, to be the chief officer in the house of the LORD, responsible for any madman who acts like a prophet—you must put him in stocks and neck irons.
  • Jeremiah 38:26then tell them, ‘I was presenting to the king my petition that he not return me to the house of Jonathan to die there.’”
  • Lamentations 3:53–55They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me. The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die. I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.
  • Jeremiah 20:2–3he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD. The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD…
  • 2 Chronicles 16:10Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.
  • Psalms 105:18They bruised his feet with shackles and placed his neck in irons,
  • 1 Kings 22:27and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”
  • Jeremiah 37:15–16The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison. So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and remained there a…

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