Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
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Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
Thus you shall do to all the cities very far from you, which not from the cities of these nations here.
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Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
Thus shalt thou do vnto all ye cities, which are a great way off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations here.
So shalt thou do to all cities that are at a great distance from thee, and are not of these cities which thou shalt receive in possession.
So thou dost do to all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
So you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
You must act in this way toward all the cities that are very far from you, cities that are not of the cities of these following nations.
Thus you shall do to all the cities very far from you, which not from the cities of these nations here.
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities that are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
Thus shalt thou do to all the cities which are very distant from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
This is the way you are to deal with all the towns that are a long way from you and don't belong to neighboring nations.
So you are to do to all the towns far away, which are not the towns of these nations.
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
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Shared distinctive vocabulary
הֵֽנָּה these H2007 occurs in 44 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 24 words from the Hebrew and 34 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.
In the original languages it is 13 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.
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) 34 words vs World English Bible 24. 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.
כֵּ֤ן תַּעֲשֶׂה֙ לְכָל הֶ֣עָרִ֔ים הָרְחֹקֹ֥ת מִמְּךָ֖ מְאֹ֑ד אֲשֶׁ֛ר לֹא מֵעָרֵ֥י הַגּֽוֹיִם הָאֵ֖לֶּה הֵֽנָּה
Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
World English Bible · Public Domain
οὕτως ποιέω πᾶς ὁ πόλις ὁ μακράν εἰμί ἀπό σύ σφόδρα ὅς οὐ ἐκ ὁ πόλις ὁ ἔθνος οὗτος
Thus shall you do to all the cities that are very far off from you, not being of the cities of these nations which the Lord your God gives you to inherit their land.
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.
כֵּן תַּעְבֵד לְכָל קִרְוַיָא דִי רְחִיקִין מִנָךְ לַחֲדָא דִי לָא מִקִרְוֵי עַמְמַיָא הָאִלֵין אִנוּן
(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.
הֵיכְנָא תַּעַבְדוּן לְכָל קִירְוַיָא דִרְחִיקִין מִנְכוֹן לַחֲדָא דְּלָא מִקִרְוֵי שִׁבְעָתֵי עַמְמַיָא הָאִלֵּין הִינוּן
Thus shall you do to all cities that are remote from you, which are not of the cities of these seven nations;
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 13 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is hênnâh (“these”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Deuteronomy 20:15 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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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale Open Resources
Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
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.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Keil & Delitzsch
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch
Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)