He said to them, Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I am become his priest.
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He said to them, Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I am become his priest.
And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.
And he said to them, “Like this and like this Micah has done for me: now he has hired me, and I am to him for a priest.”
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He said to them, Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I am become his priest.
“Micah has done this and that for me,” he replied, “and he has hired me to be his priest.”
“Micah has done this and that for me,” he replied, “and he has hired me to be his priest.”
And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.
And he said unto them, Thus and thus hath Micah dealt with me, and he hath hired me, and I am become his priest.
And he said unto them, Thus and thus hath Micah dealt with me, and he hath hired me, and I am become his priest.
And he answered them, Thus and thus dealeth Michah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his Priest.
He answered them: Michas hath done such and such things for me, and hath hired me to be his priest.
And he saith unto them, `Thus and thus hath Micah done to me; and he hireth me, and I am to him for a priest.'
And he says to them, “Thus and thus has Micah done to me; and he hires me, and I am for a priest to him.”
He said to them, “This is what Micah has done for me: He has hired me to become his priest.”
And he said to them, “Like this and like this Micah has done for me: now he has hired me, and I am to him for a priest.”
And he said to them, "Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me: he has hired me, and I have become his priest."
He said to them, “Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I have become his priest.”
And he said to them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.
“Micah arranged things for me, and he hired me as his priest,” he told them.
And he said to them, This is what Micah did for me, and he gave me payment and I became his priest.
And he said unto them: 'Thus and thus hath Micah dealt with me, and he hath hired me, and I am become his priest.'
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is כָּזֹ֣ה this H2090 — appearing just 12 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
Shared distinctive vocabulary
כָּזֹ֣ה this H2090 occurs in 12 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 23 words from the Hebrew and 21 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 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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וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲלֵהֶ֔ם כָּזֹ֣ה וְכָזֶ֔ה עָ֥שָׂה לִ֖י מִיכָ֑ה וַיִּשְׂכְּרֵ֕נִי וָאֱהִי ל֖וֹ לְכֹהֵֽן
He said to them, Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I am become his priest.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί εἶπον πρός αὐτός οὕτως καί οὕτως ποιέω ἐγώ μιχαιας καί μισθόω ἐγώ καί γίγνομαι αὐτός εἰς ἱερεύς
And he said to them, Thus and thus did Michaias to me, and he hired me, and I became his priest.
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.
וַאֲמַר לְהוֹן כְּדֵין וּכְדֵין עֲבַד לִי מִיכָה וְאַגִרַנִי וַהֲוֵית לֵיהּ לְכוּמְרָא:
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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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Judges, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is zôh (“this”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Judges 18:4 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.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — 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.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.