Translation comparison

Sirach 50:1 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 50

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

Simon the high priest, the son of Onias, who in his life repaired the house again, and in his days fortified the temple:

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.

1Simon the high priest, the son of Onias, who in his life repaired the house again, and in his days fortified the temple:

2And by him was built from the foundation the double height, the high fortress of the wall about the temple:

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