וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא שָׂ֛ם לִבּ֖וֹ אֶל דְּבַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה וַֽיַּעֲזֹ֛ב אֶת עֲבָדָ֥יו וְאֶת מִקְנֵ֖הוּ בַּשָּׂדֶֽה
Whoever didn't regard the word of Yahweh left his servants and his cattle in the field.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Exodus 9:21
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 9:21 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
Whoever didn't regard the word of Yahweh left his servants and his cattle in the field.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Whoever didn't regard the word of Yahweh left his servants and his cattle in the field.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
but whoever did not set his heart to the word of Yahweh left his slaves and his livestock in the field.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Whoever didn't regard the word of Yahweh left his servants and his cattle in the field.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
but those who disregarded the word of the LORD left their servants and livestock in the field.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
but those who disregarded the word of the LORD left their servants and livestock in the field.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And he that regarded not the word of Jehovah left his servants and his cattle in the field.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
But such as regarded not the worde of the Lord, left his seruants, and his cattell in the fielde.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand towards heaven, that there may be hail in the whole land of Egypt, upon men, and upon beasts, and upon every herb of the field in the land of Egypt.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and he who hath not set his heart unto the word of Jehovah leaveth his servants and his cattle in the field.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and he who has not set his heart to the word of YHWH leaves his servants and his livestock in the field.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
But those who did not take Yahweh's message seriously left their slaves and cattle in the fields.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
but whoever did not set his heart to the word of Yahweh left his slaves and his livestock in the field.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
But he that did not regard the word of Jehovah left his bondmen and his cattle in the field.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Whoever didn’t respect the LORD’s word left his servants and his livestock in the field.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And he that regarded not the word of the LORD, left his servants and his cattle in the field.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
But those who didn't care what the Lord said left their servants and livestock outside.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And he who gave no attention to the word of the Lord, kept his servants and his cattle in the field.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field.
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מִקְנֵ֖הוּ
miqneh
H4735
“cattle · his”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- Appears 76× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 4:20
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Construct
Full BDB Definition
cattle, livestock
- cattle, livestock
- in general of a purchasable domestic animal
- cows, sheep, goats (in herds and flocks)
- וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר ʼăsher H834 “and · which” Conjunction + Particle, Relative
- לֹא lôʼ H3808 “not” Particle, Negative
- שָׂ֛ם sûwm H7760 “to put” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- לִבּ֖וֹ lêb H3820 “heart · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶל ʼêl H413 “to” Preposition
- דְּבַ֣ר dâbâr H1697 “word of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- יְהוָ֑ה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper
- וַֽיַּעֲזֹ֛ב ʻâzab H5800 “and · to leave” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- עֲבָדָ֥יו ʻebed H5650 “servants · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- מִקְנֵ֖הוּ miqneh H4735 “cattle · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- בַּשָּׂדֶֽה sâdeh H7704 “in/at the · field” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 13
- words
- 12
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 6 nouns
- 1 preposition
- 4 particles
Verb forms
- שָׂ֛ם Qal · Perfect
- וַֽיַּעֲזֹ֛ב Qal · Sequential Imperfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 21 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 16 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.
Cross-references
8Topical passages linked to Exodus 9:21 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Exodus 7:23 Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he lay even this to heart.
- 1 Samuel 4:20 About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, Don't be afraid; for you have brought forth a son. But she didn't answer, neither did she regard it.
- 1 Chronicles 22:19 Now set your heart and your soul to seek after Yahweh your God; arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of Yahweh.
- Job 7:17 What is man, that you should magnify him, That you should set your mind on him,
- Job 34:14 If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath;
- Proverbs 24:32 Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:
- Ezekiel 40:4 The man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you; for, to the intent that I may show them to you, are you brought here: declare all that you see to the house of Israel.
- Daniel 10:12 Then said he to me, Don't be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that you did set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard: and I am come for your words' sake.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
ὅς δέ μή προςἔχω ὁ διάνοια εἰς ὁ ῥῆμα κύριος ἀποἵημι ὁ κτῆνος ἐν ὁ πεδίον
And he that did not attend in his mind to the word of the Lord, left the cattle in the fields.
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 →
Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)
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.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְדִי לָא שַׁוִי לִבֵּהּ לְפִתְגָמָא דַיְיָ שְׁבַק יָת עַבְדוֹהִי וְיָת גֵיתוֹהִי בְּחַקְלָא:
(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.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וּבִלְעָם דְלָא שַׁוֵיהּ לִבֵּיהּ לְפִתְגָמָא דַיְיָ וּשְׁבַק יַת עַבְדוֹי וְיַת גֵיתוֹי בְּחַקְלָא
But Bileam, who did not set his heart upon the word of the Lord, left his servants and his flocks in the field.
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.
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 13 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is miqneh (“cattle”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “cattle” (miqneh) shape what this verse is saying?
- Exodus 7:23 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- The verb «שָׂ֛ם» is Qal Perfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 13 Hebrew ↔ 16 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 13 words in this verse.
- 12 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 13 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Exodus 9:21 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.
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.
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.