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Jotham’s Parable

Judges 9:10

In 11 translations

BSB
Then the trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come and reign over us.’
KJV
And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us.
WEB
“The trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come and reign over us.’
ASV
And the trees said to the fig-tree, Come thou, and reign over us.
LSV
And the trees say to the fig, Come, reign over us.
YLT
And the trees say to the fig, Come thou, reign over us.
DBY
And the trees said to the fig-tree, Come thou, reign over us.
DRC
And the trees said to the fig tree: Come thou and reign over us.
GNV
Then the trees sayde to the fig tree, Come thou, and be King ouer vs.
JPS
And the trees said to the fig-tree: Come thou, and reign over us.
LXXE
And the trees said to the fig-tree, Come, reign over us.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיֹּאמְר֥וּ הָעֵצִ֖ים לַתְּאֵנָ֑ה לְכִי־אַ֖תְּ מָלְכִ֥י עָלֵֽינוּ׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ εἶπον τὰ ξύλα τῇ συκῇ, δεῦρο, βασίλευσον ἐφʼ ἡμῶν.

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