Translation comparison

2 Esdras 13:18 in 1 translation

Every translation here words this verse identically, which is itself worth knowing — there is no interpretive fork to weigh.

Read with nearby context Open chapter 13

Early modern English

Seventeenth-century wording and sentence shape. Familiar, rhythmic, and the version most quotations you have heard are taken from.

King James Version

KJV

Now understand I the things that are laid up in the latter days, which shall happen unto them, and to those that are left behind.

1611 / 1769 · Public domain · The Authorised Version, revised to the 1769 Blayney text. Includes the Apocrypha as printed in 1611.

The verses either side

King James text. A comparison is easier to judge when you can see the sentence the verse sits inside.

17For they that were not left were in heaviness.

18Now understand I the things that are laid up in the latter days, which shall happen unto them, and to those that are left behind.

19Therefore are they come into great perils and many necessities, like as these dreams declare.

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