They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field;
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They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field;
They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,
They took their flock and their herd and their donkeys, and what in the city and what in the field.
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They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field;
They took their flocks and herds and donkeys, and everything else in the city or in the field.
They took their flocks and herds and donkeys, and everything else in the city or in the field.
They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,
They took their flocks and their herds and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field;
They took their flocks and their herds and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field;
They tooke their sheepe and their beeues, and their asses, and whatsoeuer was in the citie, and in the fieldes.
And they took their sheep and their herds and their asses, wasting all they had in their houses and in the fields.
their flock and their herd, and their asses, and that which `is' in the city, and that which `is' in the field, have they taken;
their flock and their herd, and their donkeys, and that which [is] in the city, and that which [is] in the field, have they taken;
They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, and everything in the city and in the surrounding fields with
They took their flock and their herd and their donkeys, and what in the city and what in the field.
Their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and what [was] in the city, and what [was] in the field they took;
They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,
They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field.
They took their sheep, goats, cattle, and donkeys. They took whatever was in the town, and in the fields—
They took their flocks and their herds and their asses and everything in their town and in their fields,
They took their flocks and their herds and their asses, and that which was in the city and that which was in the field;
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 25 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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אֶת צֹאנָ֥ם וְאֶת בְּקָרָ֖ם וְאֶת חֲמֹרֵיהֶּ֑ם וְאֵ֧ת אֲשֶׁר בָּעִ֛יר וְאֶת אֲשֶׁ֥ר בַּשָּׂדֶ֖ה לָקָֽחוּ
They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field;
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ὁ πρόβατον αὐτός καί ὁ βοῦς αὐτός καί ὁ ὄνος αὐτός ὅσος τε εἰμί ἐν ὁ πόλις καί ὅσος εἰμί ἐν ὁ πεδίον λαμβάνω
And their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses they took, and all things whatever were in the city, and whatever were in the plain.
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.
יָת עָנְהוֹן וְיָת תּוֹרְהוֹן וְיָת חֲמָרֵיהוֹן וְיָת דִּי בְקַרְתָּא וְיָת דִּי בְחַקְלָא בְּזוֹ
(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.
וְיַת עַנְהוֹם וְיַת תּוֹרֵיהוֹם וְיַת חֲמָרֵיהוֹם וְיַת דִבְקַרְתָּא וְיַת דִבְחַקְלָא בָּזוּ
Their flocks, and oxen, and asses, and whatever was in the city or in the field they spoiled;
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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Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 13 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is chămôwr (“donkey”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 34:28 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.
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.