We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'
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We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'
We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
We twelve brothers, the sons of our father. The one is not, and the youngest with our father today in the land of Canaan.’
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'
We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.’
We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.’
We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
we are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
we be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
We be twelue brethren, sonnes of our father: one is not, and the yongest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
We are twelve brethren born of one father: one is not living, the youngest is with our father in the land of Chanaan.
we `are' twelve brethren, sons of our father, the one is not, and the young one `is' to-day with our father in the land of Canaan.
we [are] twelve brothers, sons of our father, one is not, and the young one [is] today with our father in the land of Canaan.
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father. One is no longer alive, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'
We twelve brothers, the sons of our father. The one is not, and the youngest with our father today in the land of Canaan.’
we are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’
We are twelve brethren, sons of our father: one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
We are twelve brothers, the sons of one father. One has passed away and the youngest is right now with our father in the country of Canaan.’
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is dead, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.
We are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
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Repetition
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 26 words from the Hebrew and 24 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 14 Hebrew tokens and 22 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.
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.
שְׁנֵים עָשָׂ֥ר אֲנַ֛חְנוּ אַחִ֖ים בְּנֵ֣י אָבִ֑ינוּ הָאֶחָ֣ד אֵינֶ֔נּוּ וְהַקָּטֹ֥ן הַיּ֛וֹם אֶת אָבִ֖ינוּ בְּאֶ֥רֶץ כְּנָֽעַן
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'
World English Bible · Public Domain
δώδεκα ἀδελφός εἰμί υἱός ὁ πατήρ ἐγώ ὁ εἷς οὐ ὑποἄρχω ὁ δέ μικρός μετά ὁ πατήρ ἐγώ σήμερον ἐν γῆ χανααν
We are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is with his father today in the land of Chanaan.
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.
תְּרֵין עֲסַר אֲנַחְנָא אַחִין בְּנֵי אָבוּנָא חַד לֵיתוֹהִי וּזְעֵירָא יוֹמָא דֵּין עִם אָבוּנָא בְּאַרְעָא דִּכְנָעַן
(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.
תְּרֵיסַר אֲנַחְנָא אַחִין בְּנֵי אָבוּנָא חַד לֵית אֲנָן יָדְעִין מַה הֲוָה בְּסוֹפֵיהּ וְקַלִילָא יוֹמָא דֵין עִם אָבוּנָא בְּאַרְעָא דִכְנָעַן
We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; of one, we know not what was his end, and the youngest is tojday with our father in the land of Kenaan.
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 14 words (13 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Kᵉnaʻan (“Canaan”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 42:32 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.