Parallel 2CH 10:4

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BSB “Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you should lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”

OEB No OEB 2CH book available

WEB “Your father made our yoke grievous. Now therefore make the grievous service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”

NET “Your father made us work too hard! Now if you lighten the demands he made and don’t make us work as hard, we will serve you.”

LSV “Your father made our yoke sharp, and now, make light [some] of the sharp service of your father, and [some] of his heavy yoke that he put on us, and we serve you.”

FBV “Your father placed a heavy burden on us,” they told him. “But now if you lighten the load your father imposed and the heavy demands he laid on us, we will serve you.”

T4T “Your father Solomon forced us to work very hard for him. If you do not force us to work that hard, and if you charge us less taxes than we were paying to him, we will serve you faithfully.”

LEB “Your father made our yoke heavy. Now, therefore, lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, and we will serve you.”

BBE Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.

MOF No MOF 2CH book available

JPS 'Thy father made our yoke grievous; now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.'

ASV Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.

DRA Thy father oppressed us with a most grievous yoke, do thou govern us with a lighter hand than thy father, who laid upon us a heavy servitude, and ease some thing of the burden, that we may serve thee.

YLT 'Thy father made our yoke sharp, and now, make light [somewhat] of the sharp service of thy father, and of his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we serve thee.'

DBY Thy father made our yoke grievous; and now lighten the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.

RV Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.

WBS Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.

KJB Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.
  (Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou/you somewhat the grievous servitude of thy/your father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.)

BB Thy father layde a greeuous yoke vpon vs: nowe therefore remit thou somewhat of the greeuous seruice of thy fafather, & of his heauy yoke that he put vpon vs, and we wyll serue thee.
  (Thy father laid a grievous yoke upon us: now therefore remit thou/you somewhat of the grievous service of thy/your fafather, and of his heauy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.)

GNV Thy father made our yoke grieuous: nowe therefore make thou the grieuous seruitude of thy father, and his sore yoke, that he put vpon vs, lighter, and we will serue thee.
  (Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou/you the grievous seruitude of thy/your father, and his sore yoke, that he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.)

CB Thy father made or yocke greuous: make thou lighter now ye harde bondage of thy father, and ye heuy yocke that he layed vpon vs, and we wyll submytte oure selues vnto the.
  (Thy father made or yocke greuous: make thou/you lighter now ye/you_all harde bondage of thy/your father, and ye/you_all heuy yocke that he laid upon us, and we will submytte our selves unto them.)

WYC Thi fadir oppresside vs with ful hard yok; comaunde thou liytere thingis than thi fader, that settide on vs a greuouse seruage; and releese thou a litil of `the birthun, that we serue thee. And he seide,
  (Thi father oppressede us with full hard yok; comaunde thou/you lightere things than thy/your fader, that settide on us a greuouse seruage; and releese thou/you a little of `the birthun, that we serve thee. And he said,)

LUT Dein Vater hat unser Joch zu hart gemacht. So leichtere nun du den harten Dienst deines Vaters und das schwere Joch, das er auf uns gelegt hat, so wollen wir dir untertänig sein.
  (Dein father has unser Yoch to hart made. So leichtere now you the harten service deines Vaters and the schwere Yoch, the he on uns gelegt has, so wollen wir you untertänig sein.)

CLV Pater tuus durissimo jugo nos pressit: tu leviora impera patre tuo, qui nobis imposuit gravem servitutem, et paululum de onere subleva, ut serviamus tibi.
  (Pater tuus durissimo yugo nos pressit: tu leviora impera patre tuo, who nobis imposuit gravem servitutem, and paululum about onere subleva, as serviamus tibi.)

BRN Thy father made our yoke grievous: now then abate somewhat of thy father's grievous rule, and of his heavy yoke which he put upon us, and we will serve thee.

BrLXX ὁ πατήρ σου ἐσκλήρυνε τὸν ζυγὸν ἡμῶν, καὶ νῦν ἄφες ἀπὸ τῆς δουλείας τοῦ πατρός σου τῆς σκληρᾶς, καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ ζυγοῦ αὐτοῦ τοῦ βαρέος, οὗ ἔδωκεν ἐφʼ ἡμᾶς, καὶ δουλεύσομέν σοι.
  (ho pataʸr sou esklaʸrune ton zugon haʸmōn, kai nun afes apo taʸs douleias tou patros sou taʸs sklaʸras, kai apo tou zugou autou tou bareos, hou edōken efʼ haʸmas, kai douleusomen soi.)