So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
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So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.
And the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the Box of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
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So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
So the priests and Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel.
So the priests and Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel.
So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.
So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Jehovah, the God of Israel.
So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel.
So the Priestes and the Leuites sanctified them selues to bring vp the Arke of the Lord God of Israel.
So the priests and the Levites were sanctified, to carry the ark of the Lord the God of Israel.
And the priests and the Levites sanctify themselves, to bring up the ark of Jehovah, God of Israel;
And the priests and the Levites sanctify themselves to bring up the Ark of YHWH, God of Israel;
So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves so they could bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
And the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the Box of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
So the priests and the Levites hallowed themselves to bring up the ark of Jehovah the God of Israel.
So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel.
So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.
So the priests and the Levites purified themselves so that they could bring back the Ark of the Lord, the God of Israel.
So the priests and the Levites made themselves holy to take up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel.
So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel.
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 18 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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וַיִּֽתְקַדְּשׁ֔וּ הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים וְהַלְוִיִּ֑ם לְהַעֲל֕וֹת אֶת אֲר֥וֹן יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἁγνίζω ὁ ἱερεύς καί ὁ λευίτης ὁ ἀναφέρω ὁ κιβωτός θεός ἰσραήλ
So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves, to bring up the ark of the God of Israel.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is qâdash (“to consecrate”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 15:14 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Keil & Delitzsch
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch
Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)