Translation comparison

2 Esdras 7:30 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 7

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

And the world shall be turned into the old silence seven days, like as in the former judgments: so that no man shall remain.

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.

29After these years shall my son Christ die, and all men that have life.

30And the world shall be turned into the old silence seven days, like as in the former judgments: so that no man shall remain.

31And after seven days the world, that yet awaketh not, shall be raised up, and that shall die that is corrupt

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