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Isaiah 28:24

In 11 translations

BSB: Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?
KJV: Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
WEB: Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?
ASV: Doth he that ploweth to sow plow continually? doth he continually open and harrow his ground?
LSV: Does the plowman plow the whole day to sow? He opens and harrows his ground!
YLT: The whole day plougheth the ploughman to sow? He openeth and harroweth his ground!
DBY: Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow? Is he [all day] opening and breaking the clods of his land?
DRC: Shall the ploughman plough all the day to sow, shall he open and harrow his ground?
GNV: Doeth the plowe man plowe all the day, to sowe? doeth he open, and breake the clots of his ground?
JPS: Is the plowman never done with plowing to sow, with the opening and harrowing of his ground?
LXXE: Will the ploughman plough all the day? or will he prepare the seed beforehand, before he tills the ground?

WLC: הֲכֹ֣ל הַיּ֔וֹם יַחֲרֹ֥שׁ הַחֹרֵ֖שׁ לִזְרֹ֑עַ יְפַתַּ֥ח וִֽישַׂדֵּ֖ד אַדְמָתֽוֹ׃
LXX-Br: Μὴ ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν ἀροτριάσει ὁ ἀροτριῶν; ἢ σπόρον προετοιμάσει, πρὶν ἐργάσασθαι τὴν γῆν;

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Hosea 10:11–12Ephraim is a well-trained heifer that loves to thresh; but I will place a yoke on her fair neck. I will harness Ephraim, Judah will plow, and Jacob will break the hard ground. Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap…
Jeremiah 4:3For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.

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