With whoever of your servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondservants."
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With whoever of your servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondservants."
With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.
Whoever of your servants is found with it, then he will die, and we also will be slaves for my lord.”
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
With whoever of your servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondservants."
If any of your servants is found to have it, he must die, and the rest will become slaves of my lord.”
If any of your servants is found to have it, he must die, and the rest will become slaves of my lord.”
With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.
With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.
With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s bondmen.
With whomesoeuer of thy seruants it bee found, let him dye, and we also will be my lordes bondmen.
With whomsoever of thy servants shall be found that which thou seekest, let him die, and we will be the bondmen of my lord.
with whomsoever of thy servants it is found, he hath died, and we also are to my lord for servants.'
With whomsoever of your servants it is found, he has died, and we also are to my lord for servants.”
With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my master's slaves.”
Whoever of your servants is found with it, then he will die, and we also will be slaves for my lord.”
With whomsoever of thy servants it is found, let him die; and we also will be my lord's bondmen.
With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.”
With whom soever of thy servants it shall be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bond-men.
If any one of us is found with it, he shall die, and all of us will become your slaves.”
If it comes to light that any of your servants has done this, let him be put to death, and we will be your lord's servants.
With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.'
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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.
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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 18 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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אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִמָּצֵ֥א אִתּ֛וֹ מֵעֲבָדֶ֖יךָ וָמֵ֑ת וְגַם אֲנַ֕חְנוּ נִֽהְיֶ֥ה לַֽאדֹנִ֖י לַעֲבָדִֽים
With whoever of your servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondservants."
World English Bible · Public Domain
παρά ὅς ἄν εὑρίσκω ὁ κόνδυ ὁ παῖς σύ ἀποθνήσκω καί ἐγώ δέ εἰμί παῖς ὁ κύριος ἐγώ
With whoever of your servants you shall find the cup, let him die; and, moreover, we will be servants to our lord.
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.
דִּי יִשְׁתְּכַח עִמֵּהּ מֵעַבְדָיךְ וּמִית וְאַף אַנַחְנָא נְהֵי לְרִבּוֹנִי לְעַבְדִין
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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.
דִי יִשְׁתְּכַח עִמֵיהּ מֵעַבְדָךְ יְהִי חַיָיב קְטוֹל וְאוּף אֲנַן נְהִי לְרִבּוֹנִי לְעַבְדִין
With whomsoever of thy servants it shall be found, let him be guilty of death, and we also will be slaves of thy lord.
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 10 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼănachnûw (“we”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 44:9 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.
Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale Open Resources
Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
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.