He said, I may not return with you, nor go in with you; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place:
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He said, I may not return with you, nor go in with you; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place:
And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:
And he said, “I am not able to return with you or to come with you. And I will not eat bread and I will not drink water with you in this place.
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He said, I may not return with you, nor go in with you; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place:
But the man replied, “I cannot return with you or eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
But the man replied, “I cannot go home with you, and I will not eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:
And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:
And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:
But he answered, I may not returne with thee, nor go in with thee, neither wil I eate bread nor drinke water with thee in this place.
But he said: I must not return, nor go with thee, neither will I eat bread, nor drink water in this place:
And he saith, `I am not able to turn back with thee, and to go in with thee, nor do I eat bread or drink with thee water in this place,
And he says, “I am not able to return with you, and to go in with you, nor do I eat bread or drink water with you in this place,
The man of God answered, “I may not return with you nor go in with you, neither will I eat food nor drink water with you in this place,
And he said, “I am not able to return with you or to come with you. And I will not eat bread and I will not drink water with you in this place.
And he said, I cannot return with thee, nor go in with thee; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place.
He said, “I may not return with you, nor go in with you. I will not eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:
“I can't turn around and go with you, and I won't eat or drink with you in this place,” the man of God replied.
But he said, I may not go back with you or go into your house; and I will not take food or a drink of water with you in this place;
And he said: 'I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place.
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Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 26 words from the Hebrew and 28 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 16 Hebrew tokens and 20 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וַיֹּ֗אמֶר לֹ֥א אוּכַ֛ל לָשׁ֥וּב אִתָּ֖ךְ וְלָב֣וֹא אִתָּ֑ךְ וְלֹֽא אֹ֣כַל לֶ֗חֶם וְלֹֽא אֶשְׁתֶּ֤ה אִתְּךָ֙ מַ֔יִם בַּמָּק֖וֹם הַזֶּֽה
He said, I may not return with you, nor go in with you; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place:
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί εἶπον οὐ μή δύναμαι ὁ ἐπιστρέφω μετά σύ οὐδέ μή ἐσθίω ἄρτος οὐδέ πίνω ὕδωρ ἐν ὁ τόπος οὗτος
And he said, I shall not by any means be able to return with you, neither will I eat bread, neither will I drink water in this place.
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 →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וַאֲמַר לָא אִיכוּל לְמֵיתַב עִמָךְ וּלְמֵיעַל עִמָךְ וְלָא אֵיכוּל לַחְמָא וְלָא אֶשְׁתֵּי עִמָךְ מַיָא בְּאַתְרָא הָדֵין:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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1 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 16 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is yâkôl (“to prevail”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Kings 13:16 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.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — 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.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.