"The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
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"The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
“The man, the lord of the land, spoke to us harshly and treated us as spying out the land!
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"The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
“The man who is lord of the land spoke harshly to us and accused us of spying on the country.
“The man who is lord of the land spoke harshly to us and accused us of spying on the country.
The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
The man, the lord of the land, spake roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
The man, the lord of the land, spake roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
The man, who is Lord of the lande, spake roughly to vs, and put vs in prison as spyes of the countrey.
The lord of the land spoke roughly to us, and took us to be spies of the country.
`The man, the lord of the land, hath spoken with us sharp things, and maketh us as spies of the land;
“The man, the lord of the land, has spoken with us sharp things, and makes us as spies of the land;
“The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us and thought that we were spies in the land.
“The man, the lord of the land, spoke to us harshly and treated us as spying out the land!
The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and treated us as spies of the land.
“The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
The man who is the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
“The man who is the country's governor spoke to us in a severe way, and accused us of spying on the land,” they explained.
The man who is the ruler of the country was rough with us and put us in prison, saying that we had come with a secret evil purpose.
'The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is כִּֽמְרַגְּלִ֖ים to walk H7270 — appearing just 25 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
כִּֽמְרַגְּלִ֖ים to walk H7270 occurs in 24 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 22 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 11 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.
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דִּ֠בֶּר הָאִ֨ישׁ אֲדֹנֵ֥י הָאָ֛רֶץ אִתָּ֖נוּ קָשׁ֑וֹת וַיִּתֵּ֣ן אֹתָ֔נוּ כִּֽמְרַגְּלִ֖ים אֶת הָאָֽרֶץ
"The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
World English Bible · Public Domain
λαλέω ὁ ἄνθρωπος ὁ κύριος ὁ γῆ πρός ἐγώ σκληρός καί τίθημι ἐγώ ἐν φυλακή ὡς κατασκοπεύω ὁ γῆ
The man, the lord of the land, spoke harsh words to us, and put us in prison as spies of the land.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
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.
מַלֵּיל גַּבְרָא רִבּוֹנָא דְאַרְעָא עִמָּנָא קַשְׁיָן וִיהַב יָתָנָא כִּמְאַלִּילֵי יָת אַרְעָא
(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.
מַלֵיל גַבְרָא רִבּוֹנָא דְאַרְעָא עִמָנָא מִלִין קָשִׁין וּבְזִי יָתָן כִּמְאַלְלֵי אַרְעָא
The man the lord of the land spake with us harshly, and treated us as spies of the country:
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 11 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is râgal (“to walk”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 42:30 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.
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.