and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:
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and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:
And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
and Yahweh your God will give it into your hand, and you shall strike every male by the mouth of the sword.
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and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:
When the LORD your God has delivered it into your hand, you must put every male to the sword.
When the LORD your God has delivered it into your hand, you must put every male to the sword.
And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
and when Jehovah thy God delivereth it into thy hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
and when the LORD thy God delivereth it into thine hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
And the Lord thy God shall deliuer it into thine handes, and thou shalt smite all the males thereof with the edge of the sworde.
And when the Lord thy God shall deliver it into thy bands, thou shalt slay all that are therein of the male sex, with the edge of the sword,
and Jehovah thy God hath given it into thy hand, and thou hast smitten every male of it by the mouth of the sword.
and your God YHWH has given it into your hand, and you have struck every male of it by the mouth of the sword.
and when Yahweh your God gives you victory and puts them under your control, you must kill every man in the town.
and Yahweh your God will give it into your hand, and you shall strike every male by the mouth of the sword.
and when Jehovah thy God delivereth it into thy hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
When the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword;
And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thy hands, thou shalt smite every male of it with the edge of the sword:
Once the Lord your God has handed it over to you, kill every male with the sword.
And when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, let every male in it be put to death without mercy.
And when the LORD thy God delivereth it into thy hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword;
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is זְכוּרָ֖הּ male H2138 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
זְכוּרָ֖הּ male H2138 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 23 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 10 Hebrew tokens and 19 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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וּנְתָנָ֛הּ יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ בְּיָדֶ֑ךָ וְהִכִּיתָ֥ אֶת כָּל זְכוּרָ֖הּ לְפִי חָֽרֶב
and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί παραδίδωμι αὐτός κύριος ὁ θεός σύ εἰς ὁ χείρ σύ καί πατάσσω πᾶς ἀρσενικός αὐτός ἐν φόνος μάχαιρα
until the Lord your God shall deliver it into your hands, and you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:
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.
וְיִמְסְרִנַהּ יְיָ אֱלָהָךְ בִּידָךְ וְתִמְחֵי יָת כָּל דְכוּרַהּ לְפִתְגַם דְחָרֶב
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
וְיִמְסְרִינָהּ יְיָ אֱלָהָכוֹן בִּידֵיכוֹן וְתִמְחֵי יַת כָּל דְּכוּרָהּ לְפִתְגָם דְּחָרֶב
And when the Lord your God will have delivered it into your hand, then may you smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Deuteronomy, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 10 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is zâkûwr (“male”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Deuteronomy 20:13 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.
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.