that they may fear you, to walk in your ways, so long as they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.
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that they may fear you, to walk in your ways, so long as they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.
That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
in order that they may fear you, by walking in your ways all the days that they live on the face of the ground that you gave to our fathers.
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
that they may fear you, to walk in your ways, so long as they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.
so that they may fear You and walk in Your ways all the days they live in the land that You gave to our fathers.
so that they may fear You and walk in Your ways all the days they live in the land that You gave to our fathers.
That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
that they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
that they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
That they may feare thee, and walke in thy wayes as long as they liue in the land which thou gauest vnto our fathers.
That they may fear thee, and walk in thy ways all the days that they live upon the face of the land, which thou hast given to our fathers.
so that they fear Thee, to walk in Thy ways, all the days that they are living on the face of the ground that Thou hast given to our fathers.
so that they fear You, to walk in Your ways, all the days that they are living on the face of the ground that You have given to our fathers.
Do this so that they may fear you, so that they may walk in your ways all the days that they live on the land that you gave to our ancestors.
in order that they may fear you, by walking in your ways all the days that they live on the face of the ground that you gave to our fathers.
that they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, all the days that they live upon the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
that they may fear you, to walk in your ways as long as they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.
That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest to our fathers.
Then they will respect you and follow your ways all the time they live in the land you gave to our forefathers.
So that they may give you worship, walking in your ways, as long as they are living in the land which you gave to our fathers.
that they may fear Thee, to walk in Thy ways, all the days that they live in the land which Thou gavest unto our fathers.
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Repetition
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 24 words from the Hebrew and 25 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 15 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.
לְמַ֣עַן יִֽירָא֗וּךָ לָלֶ֨כֶת֙ בִּדְרָכֶ֔יךָ כָּל הַ֨יָּמִ֔ים אֲשֶׁר הֵ֥ם חַיִּ֖ים עַל פְּנֵ֣י הָאֲדָמָ֑ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר נָתַ֖תָּה לַאֲבֹתֵֽינוּ
that they may fear you, to walk in your ways, so long as they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.
World English Bible · Public Domain
ὅπως φοβέω ὁ ὁδός σύ πᾶς ὁ ἡμέρα ὅς αὐτός ζάω ἐπί πρόσωπον ὁ γῆ ὅς δίδωμι ὁ πατήρ ἐγώ
that they may reverence all your ways all the days which they live upon the face of the land, which you gave to our fathers.
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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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 15 words (14 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼădâmâh (“ground”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Chronicles 6:31 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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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Scofield Reference Notes
C. I. Scofield
The Scofield Reference Bible (1917 edition), notes by C. I. Scofield — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.