He said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."
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He said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."
And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
And he said to his daughters, “And where is he? What is this? You left the man? Call him and he shall eat bread!”
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He said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."
“So where is he?” their father asked. “Why did you leave the man behind? Invite him to have something to eat.”
“So where is he?” their father asked. “Why did you leave the man behind? Invite him to have something to eat.”
And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? Why is it that ye have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.
And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
Then he saide vnto his daughters, And where is he? why haue ye so left the man? call him that he may eate bread.
But he said: Where is he? why have you let the man go? call him that he may eat bread.
and he saith unto his daughters, `And where `is' he? why `is' this? -- ye left the man! call for him, and he doth eat bread.'
and he says to his daughters, “And where [is] he? Why [is] this [that] you left the man? Call for him, and he eats bread.”
He said to his daughters, “So where is he? Why did you leave the man? Call him so he can eat a meal with us.”
And he said to his daughters, “And where is he? What is this? You left the man? Call him and he shall eat bread!”
And he said to his daughters, And where is he? why then have ye left the man behind? Call him, that he may eat bread.
He said to his daughters, “Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”
And he said to his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
“So where is he?” Reuel asked his daughters. “You didn't just leave him there, did you? Go and invite him to eat with us!”
And he said to his daughters, Where is he? why have you let the man go? make him come in and give him a meal.
And he said unto his daughters: 'And where is he? Why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.'
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וְאַיּ֑וֹ where H346 occurs in 40 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 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 13 Hebrew tokens and 22 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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וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֶל בְּנֹתָ֖יו וְאַיּ֑וֹ לָ֤מָּה זֶּה֙ עֲזַבְתֶּ֣ן אֶת הָאִ֔ישׁ קִרְאֶ֥ן ל֖וֹ וְיֹ֥אכַל לָֽחֶם
He said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."
World English Bible · Public Domain
ὁ δέ εἶπον ὁ θυγάτηρ αὐτός καί ποῦ εἰμί καί ἵνα τίς οὕτως καταλείπω ὁ ἄνθρωπος καλέω οὖν αὐτός ὅπως ἐσθίω ἄρτος
And he said to his daughters, And where is he? and why have you⌃ left the man? call him therefore, that he may eat bread.
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.
וַאֲמַר לִבְנָתֵיהּ וְאָן הוּא לְמָא דְנַן שְׁבַקְתִּין יָת גַבְרָא קְרַן לֵהּ וְיֵכוּל לַחְמָא:
(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.
וַאֲמַר לִבְנָתֵיהּ דִבְרֵיהּ וְהָאן הוּא דְנַן שְׁבַקְתּוּן יַת גַבְרָא קְרֵין לֵיהּ וְיֵיכוּל לַחֲמָא
And he said to his son's daughters, And where is he? Why did you leave the man? Call him, and let him eat bread.
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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Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 13 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼayêh (“where”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Exodus 2:20 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.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
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.
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.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — 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.