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The LORD Speaks of His Creation

Job 39:14

In 11 translations

BSB
For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.
KJV
Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
WEB
For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust,
ASV
For she leaveth her eggs on the earth, And warmeth them in the dust,
LSV
For she leaves her eggs on the earth, || And she warms them on the dust,
YLT
For she leaveth on the earth her eggs, And on the dust she doth warm them,
DBY
For she leaveth her eggs to the earth, and warmeth them in the dust,
DRC
When she leaveth her eggs on the earth, thou perhaps wilt warm them in the dust.
GNV39:17
Which leaueth his egges in the earth, and maketh them hote in the dust,
JPS
For she leaveth her eggs on the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
LXXE
for the ostrich will leave her eggs in the ground, and warm them on the dust,

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Original-language editions

WLC
כִּֽי־תַעֲזֹ֣ב לָאָ֣רֶץ בֵּצֶ֑יהָ וְֽעַל־עָפָ֥ר תְּחַמֵּֽם׃
LXX-Br
Ὅτι ἀφήσει εἰς γῆν τὰ ὠὰ αὐτῆς, καὶ ἐπὶ χοῦν θάλψει,

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