When she had brought them near to him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, Come, lie with me, my sister.
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When she had brought them near to him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, Come, lie with me, my sister.
And when she had brought them unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister.
And she brought near to him to eat, and he seized her, and he said to her, “Come, lie with me, my sister.”
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When she had brought them near to him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, Come, lie with me, my sister.
And when she had brought them to him to eat, he took hold of her and said, “Come lie with me, my sister!”
And when she had brought them to him to eat, he took hold of her and said, “Come lie with me, my sister!”
And when she had brought them unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister.
And when she had brought them near unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come, lie with me, my sister.
And when she had brought them near unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister.
And when she had set them before him to eate, he tooke her, and sayd vnto her, Come, lye with me, my sister.
And when she had presented him the meat, he took hold of her, and said: Come lie with me, my sister.
and she bringeth nigh unto him to eat, and he layeth hold on her, and saith to her, `Come, lie with me, my sister.'
and she brings [them] near to him to eat, and he lays hold on her, and says to her, “Come, lie with me, my sister.”
When she had brought the food to him, he took hold of her and said to her, “Come, sleep with me, my sister.”
And she brought near to him to eat, and he seized her, and he said to her, “Come, lie with me, my sister.”
And she presented them to him to eat; and he took hold of her, and said to her, Come, lie with me, my sister.
When she had brought them near to him to eat, he took hold of her and said to her, “Come, lie with me, my sister!”
And when she had brought them to him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, Come, lie with me, my sister.
But as she handed him the food, he grabbed hold of her, and said, “Come to bed with me, my sister!”
And when she took them to give them to him, he put his arms round her and said, Come to bed, my sister.
And when she had brought them near unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her: 'Come lie with me, my sister.'
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 25 words from the Hebrew and 24 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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In the original languages it is 11 Hebrew tokens and 17 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.
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וַתַּגֵּ֥שׁ אֵלָ֖יו לֶֽאֱכֹ֑ל וַיַּֽחֲזֶק בָּהּ֙ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לָ֔הּ בּ֛וֹאִי שִׁכְבִ֥י עִמִּ֖י אֲחוֹתִֽי
When she had brought them near to him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, Come, lie with me, my sister.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί προςἄγω αὐτός ὁ ἐσθίω καί ἐπιλαμβάνω αὐτός καί εἶπον αὐτός δεῦρο κοιμάω μετά ἐγώ ἀδελφή ἐγώ
And she brought them to him to eat, and he caught hold of her, and said to her, Come, lie with me, my sister.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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וְקָרֵיבַת לֵיהּ לְמֵיכַל וְאַתְקֵיף בָּהּ וַאֲמַר לָהּ עוּלִי שְׁכִיבִי עִמִי אֲחָתִי:
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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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2 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼâchôwth (“sister”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Samuel 13:11 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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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.