But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
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But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
But I acted for my name’s sake so it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out of Egypt.
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But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
But I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
But I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
But I had respect to my Name, that it shoulde not bee polluted before the heathen in whose sight I brought them out.
But I spared them for the sake of my name, lest it should be profaned before the nations, from which I brought them out, in their sight.
And I do `it' for My name's sake, Not to pollute `it' before the eyes of the nations, Before whose eyes I brought them forth.
And I do [it] for My Name’s sake, || Not to defile [it] before the eyes of the nations, || Before whose eyes I brought them forth.
But I acted for my name's sake so it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out of Egypt.
But I acted for my name’s sake so it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out of Egypt.
But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.
But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
But I still acted for them so I would not be misrepresented, so that I wouldn't lose respect in the eyes of the other nations who had seen me lead Israel out of Egypt.
And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it might not be made unclean in the eyes of the nations, before whose eyes I had taken them out.
But I wrought for My name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 26 words from the Hebrew and 23 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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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.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וָאֶעֱשֶׂ֖ה לְמַ֣עַן שְׁמִ֑י לְבִלְתִּ֤י הֵחֵל֙ לְעֵינֵ֣י הַגּוֹיִ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר הוֹצֵאתִ֖ים לְעֵינֵיהֶֽם
But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ποιέω ὅπως ὁ ὄνομα ἐγώ ὁ παράπαν μή βεβηλόω ἐνώπιον ὁ ἔθνος ὅς ἐκἄγω αὐτός κατά ὀφθαλμός αὐτός
But I wrought so that my name should not be at all profaned before the Gentiles, before whose eyes I brought them out.
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.
וַעֲבָדֵית בְּדִיל שְׁמִי בְּדִיל דְלָא יִתְחַל לְעֵינֵי עַמְמַיָא דְאַפֵיקְתִּינוּן לְעֵינֵיהוֹן:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 10 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is biltîy (“except”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Ezekiel 20:14 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.
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.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
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.