Translation comparison

2 Esdras 9:43 in 1 translation

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

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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

She said unto me, I thy servant have been barren, and had no child, though I had an husband thirty years,

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.

42And I said unto her, What aileth thee? tell me.

43She said unto me, I thy servant have been barren, and had no child, though I had an husband thirty years,

44And those thirty years I did nothing else day and night, and every hour, but make my, prayer to the Highest.

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