Translation comparison

2 Esdras 14:13 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 14

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 therefore set thine house in order, and reprove thy people, comfort such of them as be in trouble, and now renounce corruption,

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.

12And there remaineth that which is after the half of the tenth part.

13Now therefore set thine house in order, and reprove thy people, comfort such of them as be in trouble, and now renounce corruption,

14Let go from thee mortal thoughts, cast away the burdens of man, put off now the weak nature,

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