DEU 5:25 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance=normal (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs, blue:Elohim, green:YHWH.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Καὶ νῦν μὴ ἀποθάνωμεν, ὅτι ἐξαναλώσει ἡμᾶς τὸ πῦρ τὸ μέγα τοῦτο, ἐὰν προσθώμεθα ἡμεῖς ἀκοῦσαι τὴν φωνὴν Κυρίου τοῦ Θεοῦ ἡμῶν ἔτι, καὶ ἀποθανούμεθα.
(Kai nun maʸ apothanōmen, hoti exanalōsei haʸmas to pur to mega touto, ean prosthōmetha haʸmeis akousai taʸn fōnaʸn Kuriou tou Theou haʸmōn eti, kai apothanoumetha. )

BrTr And now let us not die, for this great fire will consume us, if we shall hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, and we shall die.

ULT And now, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us if we continue anymore to hear the voice of Yahweh our God, and we will die.

UST But we are afraid that we will die. We are afraid that this immense fire will burn us all up if we go on hearing Yahweh’s voice.

BSB But now, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us, and we will die, if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer.

OEB No OEB DEU book available

WEBBE Now therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the LORD our God’s voice any more, then we shall die.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET But now, why should we die, because this intense fire will consume us! If we keep hearing the voice of the Lord our God we will die!

LSV And now, why do we die? For this great fire consumes us if we add to hear the voice of our God YHWH anymore—then we have died.

FBV But we could still die, couldn't we? This enormous fire is going to burn us up, and we'll die if the Lord our God continues to speak to us.

T4T But we are afraid that we will die [RHQ] if we hear Yahweh our God speak [MTY] to us again; his terrible fire will destroy/kill us.

LEB And so then why shall we die, for this great fire will consume us if we continue[fn] to hear the voice of Yahweh our God any longer, and so we shall die?

5:25 Literally “we do again to hear”; or “we are doing again to hear”

BBE Why then is death to be our fate? For if the voice of the Lord our God comes to us any more, death will overtake us, and we will be burned up in this great fire.

Moff No Moff DEU book available

JPS (5-22) Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die.

ASV Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of Jehovah our God any more, then we shall die.

DRA Why shall we die therefore, and why shall this exceeding great Are consume us: for if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, we shall die.

YLT 'And, now, why do we die? for consume us doth this great fire — if we add to hear the voice of Jehovah our God any more — then we have died.

Drby And now, why should we die? for this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of Jehovah our [fn]God any more, we shall die.

5.25 Elohim

RV Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die.

Wbstr Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die.

KJB-1769 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die.[fn]

5.25 hear: Heb. add to hear

KJB-1611 [fn]Now therefore why should wee die? for this great fire will consume vs. If we heare the voyce of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation and punctuation and footnotes)

5:25 Heb. adde to heare.

Bshps Nowe therfore why shoulde we dye? that this great fire shoulde consume vs: If we heare the voyce of the Lord our God any more, we shall dye:
(Now therefore why should we dye? that this great fire should consume us: If we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, we shall dye:)

Gnva Now therefore, why should we dye? for this great fire wil consume vs: if we heare ye voyce of the Lord our God any more, we shall dye.
(Now therefore, why should we dye? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear ye/you_all voice of the Lord our God any more, we shall die. )

Cvdl And now wherfore shulde we dye, that this fire shulde cosume vs? Yf we shulde heare the voyce of the LORDE oure God eny more, we shulde dye.
(And now wherefore should we dye, that this fire should cosume us? If we should hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, we should die.)

Wycl Whi therfor schulen we die, and schal this gretteste fier deuoure vs? For if we heren more the vois of oure Lord God, we schulen die.
(Whi therefore should we die, and shall this gretteste fire devour us? For if we heren more the voice of our Lord God, we should die.)

Luth Und nun, warum sollen wir sterben, daß uns dies große Feuer verzehre? Wenn wir des HErr’s, unsers Gottes, Stimme mehr hören, so müssen wir sterben.
(And now, warum sollen we/us die, that us/to_us/ourselves this/these large fire verzehre? When we/us the LORD’s, unsers God’s, voice more listenn, so müssen we/us die.)

ClVg Cur ergo moriemur, et devorabit nos ignis hic maximus? si enim audierimus ultra vocem Domini Dei nostri, moriemur.
(Cur therefore moriemur, and devorabit we ignis this maximus? when/but_if because audierimus ultra vocem Master of_God nostri, moriemur. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

וְ⁠עַתָּה֙ לָ֣⁠מָּה נָמ֔וּת

and=now to/for=what die

The Israelite leaders are using the question form to express their fears that they would die if Yahweh spoke to them. If you would not use the question form for this purpose in your language, you could translate this as a statement or an exclamation. Alternate translation: “And we do not want to die.”

Note 2 topic: grammar-connect-condition-hypothetical

כִּ֣י תֹֽאכְלֵ֔⁠נוּ הָ⁠אֵ֥שׁ הַ⁠גְּדֹלָ֖ה הַ⁠זֹּ֑את אִם־יֹסְפִ֣ים ׀ אֲנַ֗חְנוּ לִ֠⁠שְׁמֹעַ אֶת־ק֨וֹל יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהֵ֛י⁠נוּ ע֖וֹד וָ⁠מָֽתְנוּ

that/for/because/then/when consume,us the,fire the=big/large/great(fs) the,this if continue we to,hear DOM sound/voice YHWH God,our again/more and,die

The Israelite leaders are suggesting that this is a hypothetical condition, that they will only die if they continue to hear the voice of Yahweh. Use a natural form in your language for introducing a situation that could happen. Alternate translation: “If we continue anymore to hear the voice of Yahweh our God, then this great fire will consume us, then we will die”

Parallel DEU 5:25