They said, You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything of any man's hand.
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They said, You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything of any man's hand.
And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand.
And they said, “You have not defrauded us, and you have not oppressed us, and you have not taken anything from the hand of a man.”
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They said, You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything of any man's hand.
“You have not wronged us or oppressed us,” they replied, “nor have you taken anything from the hand of man.”
“You have not cheated us or oppressed us,” they replied, “nor have you taken anything from the hand of man.”
And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand.
And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.
And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man’s hand.
Then they sayde, Thou hast done vs no wrong, nor hast hurt vs, neither hast thou taken ought of any mans hand.
And they said: Thou hast not wronged us, nor oppressed us, nor taken ought at any man's hand.
And they say, `Thou hast not oppressed us, nor hast thou crushed us, nor hast thou taken from the hand of any one anything.'
And they say, “You have not oppressed us, nor have you crushed us, nor have you taken anything from the hand of anyone.”
They said, “You have not cheated us, oppressed us, or have stolen anything from any man's hand.”
And they said, “You have not defrauded us, and you have not oppressed us, and you have not taken anything from the hand of a man.”
And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, and thou hast not injured us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.
They said, “You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything from anyone’s hand.”
And they said thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught from any man's hand.
“No, you have never cheated or oppressed us,” they replied, “and you have never taken anything from anyone.”
And they said, You have never been untrue to us or cruel to us; you have taken nothing from any man.
And they said: 'Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.'
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is רַצּוֹתָ֑נוּ to crush H7533 — appearing just 19 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
רַצּוֹתָ֑נוּ to crush H7533 occurs in 18 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Repetition
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 32 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →
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.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 32 words vs World English Bible 19. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ לֹ֥א עֲשַׁקְתָּ֖נוּ וְלֹ֣א רַצּוֹתָ֑נוּ וְלֹֽא לָקַ֥חְתָּ מִיַּד אִ֖ישׁ מְאֽוּמָה
They said, You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything of any man's hand.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί εἶπον πρός σαμουηλ οὐ ἀδικέω ἐγώ καί οὐ καταδυναστεύω καί οὐ θλάω ἐγώ καί οὐ λαμβάνω ἐκ χείρ οὐδείς οὐδείς
And they said to Samuel, You have not injured us, and you have not oppressed us; and you have not afflicted us, and you have not taken anything from any one's hand.
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.
וַאֲמַרוּ לָא עֲשַׁקְתָּנָא וְלָא אֲנַסְתָּנָא וְלָא קַבֵּילְתָּא מִיַד אֱנָשׁ מִדָעַם:
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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 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 10 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is râtsats (“to crush”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Samuel 12:4 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.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword 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.
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Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.