Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, I don't want to take her;
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Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, I don't want to take her;
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;
And the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him. If he stands and says, ‘I do not delight in taking her.’
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, I don't want to take her;
Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, “I do not want to marry her,”
Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, “I do not want to marry her,”
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand, and say, I like not to take her;
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand, and say, I like not to take her;
Then the Elders of his citie shall call him, and commune with him: if he stand and say, I wil not take her,
And they shall cause him to be sent for forthwith, and shall ask him. If he answer: I will not take her to wife:
and the elders of his city have called for him, and spoken unto him, and he hath stood and said, I have no desire to take her;
and [the] elderly of his city have called for him, and spoken to him, and he has stood and said, I have no desire to take her.
Then the elders of his city must call him and speak to him. But suppose that he insists and says, 'I do not wish to take her.'
And the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him. If he stands and says, ‘I do not delight in taking her.’
Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak unto him; and if he stand to it and say, I like not to take her;
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him. If he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her,”
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he shall stand to it, and say, I like not to take her,
The town elders are to summon him and talk with him. If he continues to refuse and says, “I don't want to marry her,”
Then the responsible men of the town will send for the man, and have talk with him: and if he still says, I will not take her;
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him; and if he stand, and say: 'I like not to take her';
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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 18 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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וְקָֽרְאוּ ל֥וֹ זִקְנֵי עִיר֖וֹ וְדִבְּר֣וּ אֵלָ֑יו וְעָמַ֣ד וְאָמַ֔ר לֹ֥א חָפַ֖צְתִּי לְקַחְתָּֽהּ
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, I don't want to take her;
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί καλέω αὐτός ὁ γερουσία ὁ πόλις αὐτός καί εἶπον αὐτός καί ἵστημι εἶπον οὐ βούλομαι λαμβάνω αὐτός
And the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him; and if he stand and say, I will not take her:
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.
וִיקְרוּן לֵהּ סָבֵי קַרְתֵּהּ וִימַלְלוּן עִמֵהּ וִיקוּם וְיֵימַר לָא רְעֵנָא לְמִסְבַהּ
(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.
וְיִקְרוֹן לֵיהּ חַכִּימֵי קַרְתֵּיהּ וִימַלְלוּן עִמֵּיהּ מִילְכָּא קְשִׁיטָא וִיקוּם בְּבֵי דִינָא וְיֵימַר בְּלִישָׁן בֵּית קוּדְשָׁא לָא רָעֵינָא לְמִיסְבָּהּ
And the elders of his city shall call him and speak with him, with true counsel; and he may rise up in the house of justice, and say in the holy tongue, I am not willing to take her.
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 11 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is châphêts (“to delight in”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Deuteronomy 25:8 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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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.