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People tagged in the matching LV passage: God
Used in these topics: Prayer and fasting
There are four paragraphs in this section. In each paragraph, Jesus taught his disciples something about prayer.
Some other headings for this section are:
Jesus’ Teaching on Prayer (NIV)
Jesus Teaches About Prayer (NCV)
There are parallel passages for this section in Matthew 6:9–13 and 7:7–11.
In this paragraph, Jesus taught his disciples a prayer. This prayer is an example of how they should pray (11:2–4). Christians around the world call this prayer “the Lord’s Prayer.” A longer form of the Lord’s Prayer is recorded in Matthew 6:9–13. It is the form that most Christian churches use when they pray it aloud together in worship. The prayer here in Luke is shorter than the one in Matthew.
If you have already translated Matthew, compare the two versions of the prayer. Try to use the same or similar wording where the original Greek has the same words. Differences between the Greek text in Matthew and Luke are discussed in the footnotes.
Give us each day our daily bread.
Give(sing) to us(excl) each day the bread that we(excl) need for that day.
Please provide(sing) us(excl) every day with the food that we(excl) need.
Give us each day our daily bread: This clause means “Each day, give to us the bread/food that we need for that day.” It is a request to God to provide the food that we need each day. Some other ways to translate this are:
We pray that you will give to us each day the bread that we need for that day.
Each day, please give to us the food that we need.
This phrase is not exactly the same as in Matthew 6:11.
bread: For the Jewish people of Jesus’ time, bread was the most important food. In this context, the word bread represents “food” in general. If people in your area will not understand a literal translation of bread in this way, you may translate bread more generically as “food.” For example:
food (NLT)
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / imperative
δίδου ἡμῖν
(Some words not found in SR-GNT: τόν ἄρτον ἡμῶν τόν ἐπιούσιον Δίδου ἡμῖν τό καθʼ ἡμέραν)
This is an imperative, but it should be translated as a polite request rather than as a command. It may be helpful to add an expression such as “please” to make this clear. Alternate translation: [Please give us]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / exclusive
δίδου ἡμῖν
(Some words not found in SR-GNT: τόν ἄρτον ἡμῶν τόν ἐπιούσιον Δίδου ἡμῖν τό καθʼ ἡμέραν)
Jesus teaches his disciples to speak to God in the plural because he wants them to pray together in community about the matters he describes. Since the word us would refer to the people praying, but not to God, it would be exclusive, if your language marks that form.
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
τὸν ἄρτον ἡμῶν τὸν ἐπιούσιον
(Some words not found in SR-GNT: τόν ἄρτον ἡμῶν τόν ἐπιούσιον Δίδου ἡμῖν τό καθʼ ἡμέραν)
Jesus refers to bread, one common food, to mean food in general. Alternate translation: [the food we need that day]
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the CNTR.