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Ezra 5:4

In 11 translations

BSB
They also asked, “What are the names of the men who are constructing this building?”LXX and Syriac; Aramaic Then we told them,
KJV
Then said we unto them after this manner, What are the names of the men that make this building?make: Chaldee, build
WEB
They also asked for the names of the men who were making this building.
ASV
Then we told them after this manner, what the names of the men were that were making this building.
LSV
Then we have said thus to them, “What [are] the names of the men who are building this building?”
YLT
Then thus we have said to them, 'What [are] the names of the men who are building this building?'
DBY
And they said to them after this manner: What are the names of the men that build this building?
DRC
In answer to which we gave them the names of the men who were the promoters of that building.
GNV
Then sayde we vnto them after this maner, What are the names of the men that buylde this buylding?
JPS
'Then spoke we unto them after this manner, wrote they: What are the names of the men that build this building?'
LXXE
Then they spoke thus to them, What are the names of the men that build this city?

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
אֱדַ֥יִן כְּנֵ֖מָא אֲמַ֣רְנָא לְּהֹ֑ם מַן־אִנּוּן֙ שְׁמָהָ֣ת גֻּבְרַיָּ֔א דִּֽי־דְנָ֥ה בִנְיָנָ֖א בָּנַֽיִן׃
LXX-Br
Τότε ταῦτα εἴποσαν αὐτοῖς, τίνα ἐστὶ τὰ ὀνόματα τῶν ἀνδρῶν τῶν οἰκοδομούντων τὴν πόλιν ταύτην;

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