Artaxerxes’ Letter for Ezra
Ezra 7:26
In 11 translations
- BSB
- If anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, let a strict judgment be executed against him, whether death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment.
- KJV
- And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.to banishment: Chaldee, to rooting out
- WEB
- Whoever will not do the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with all diligence, whether it is to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
- ASV
- And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed upon him with all diligence, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
- LSV
- and any who does not do the Law of your God, and the law of the king, judgment is done speedily on him, whether to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of riches, and to bonds.”
- YLT
- and any who doth not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, speedily is judgment done upon him, whether to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of riches, and to bonds.'
- DBY
- And whosoever will not do the law of thy God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed diligently upon him, whether unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.Elohim
- DRC
- And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king diligently, judgment shall be executed upon him, either unto death, or unto banishment, or to the confiscation of goods, or at least to prison.
- GNV
- And whosoeuer will not doe the Lawe of thy God, and the Kings lawe, let him haue iudgement without delay, whether it be vnto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
- JPS
- And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed upon him with all diligence, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.'
- LXXE
- And whosoever shall not do the law of God, and the law of the king readily, judgment shall be taken upon him, whether for death or for chastisement, or for a fine of his property, or casting into prison.
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Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (2)
- Leningrad Codex reads לִשְׁרֹשִׁ֔ו; read aloud (Qere) reads לִשְׁרֹשִׁ֔י (“to banishment”).
- Written (Ketiv): לִשְׁרֹשׁוּ. Read aloud (Qere): לִשְׁרֹשִׁ֔י (“to banishment”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וְכָל־דִּי־לָא֩ לֶהֱוֵ֨א עָבֵ֜ד דָּתָ֣א דִֽי־אֱלָהָ֗ךְ וְדָתָא֙ דִּ֣י מַלְכָּ֔א אָסְפַּ֕רְנָא דִּינָ֕ה לֶהֱוֵ֥א מִתְעֲבֵ֖ד מִנֵּ֑הּ הֵ֤ן לְמוֹת֙ הֵ֣ן לשרשו הֵן־לַעֲנָ֥שׁ נִכְסִ֖ין וְלֶאֱסוּרִֽין׃Read aloud as (qere): לִשְׁרֹשִׁ֔י
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ πὰς ὃς ἂν μὴ ᾖ ποιῶν νόμον τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ νόμον τοῦ βασιλέως ἑτοίμως, τὸ κρίμα ἔσται γινόμενον ἐξ αὐτοῦ, ἐάν τε εἰς θάνατον, ἐάν τε εἰς παιδείαν, ἐάν τε εἰς ζημίαν τοῦ βίου. ἐάν τε εἰς παράδοσιν.
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PunishmentsArtaxerxesBanishmentBiblePersiaAramaic; Aramaic LanguagePrisonEzra-NehemiahCriminalsAhitub
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