Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn't destroy them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.
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Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn't destroy them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.
Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
But my eye spared them from their destruction and I did not annihilate them in the wilderness.
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Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn't destroy them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.
Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or bring them to an end in the wilderness.
Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or bring them to an end in the wilderness.
Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
Nevertheless mine eye spared them, and I destroyed them not, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.
Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.
Neuerthelesse, mine eye spared them, that I would not destroye them, neither would I consume them in the wildernes.
Yet my eye spared them, so that I destroyed them not: neither did I consume them in the desert.
And Mine eye hath pity on them -- against destroying them, And I have not made of them an end in the wilderness.
And My eye has pity on them—against destroying them, || And I have not made an end of them in the wilderness.
But my eye spared them from their destruction and I did not annihilate them in the wilderness.
But my eye spared them from their destruction and I did not annihilate them in the wilderness.
But mine eye spared them so as not to destroy them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.
Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn’t destroy them. I didn’t make a full end of them in the wilderness.
Nevertheless my eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
Even so I was sorry for them and I didn't destroy them; I didn't wipe them out in the desert.
But still my eye had pity on them and I kept them from destruction and did not put an end to them completely in the waste land.
Nevertheless Mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.
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The rarest word here is כָּלָ֖ה completion H3617 — appearing just 21 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
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כָּלָ֖ה completion H3617 occurs in 19 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 22 words from the Hebrew and 24 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וַתָּ֧חָס עֵינִ֛י עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם מִֽשַּׁחֲתָ֑ם וְלֹֽא עָשִׂ֧יתִי אוֹתָ֛ם כָּלָ֖ה בַּמִּדְבָּֽר
Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn't destroy them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί φείδομαι ὁ ὀφθαλμός ἐγώ ἐπί αὐτός ὁ ἐκἀλείφω αὐτός καί οὐ ποιέω αὐτός εἰς συντέλεια ἐν ὁ ἔρημος
Yet my eyes spared them, so as not to destroy them utterly, and I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.
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 →
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וְחָס מֵימְרִי עֲלֵיהוֹן מִלְחַבְּלוּתְהוֹן וְלָא עֲבָדִית עִמְהוֹן גְמִירָא בְּמַדְבְּרָא:
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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 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is kâlâh (“completion”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Ezekiel 20:17 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.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
John Calvin's Commentaries
John Calvin's Commentaries (1540-1563) — public domain. Text from the Calvin Translation Society English edition (1840s-50s) via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org). Calvin's coverage is partial (roughly two-thirds of the Bible); uncommented books and verses are honest gaps, never fabricated. The 19th-century editor's footnotes and remarks are omitted so the notes are faithfully Calvin's own voice.
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.
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.