Exodus 1:21 — compare Bible translations

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs.
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 Ἐπεὶ δὲ ἐφοβοῦντο αἱ μαῖαι τὸν Θεὸν, ἐποίησαν ἑαυταῖς οἰκίας.
(Epei de efobounto hai maiai ton Theon, epoiaʸsan heautais oikias.)

ULT And it came about, since the midwives feared God, that he made houses for them.

UST because they were afraid to disobey him. He gave them each a husband and children.

BSB And because the midwives feared God, He gave them families of their own.

OEB No OEB EXO 1:21 book available

WEBBE Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.

NET And because the midwives feared God, he made households for them.

LSV and it comes to pass, because the midwives have feared God, that He makes households for them;

FBV Because the midwives revered God, he gave them families of their own.

T4T Furthermore, because the midwives feared/revered God, he enabled them also to give birth to children.

LEB _⌊And so_⌋[fn] because the midwives feared God, he gave them _⌊families_⌋.[fn]

1:21 Literally “and he/it was”

1:21 Literally “houses”

BBE And because the women who took care of the Hebrew mothers had the fear of God, he gave them families.

Moff No Moff EXO 1:21 book available

JPS And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that He made them houses.

ASV And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them households.

DRA And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.

YLT and it cometh to pass, because the midwives have feared God, that He maketh for them households;

Drby And it came to pass, because the midwives feared [fn]God, that he made them houses.

1.21 Elohim

RV And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.

SLT And it will be because the midwives will fear God, and he will make houses for them.

Wbstr And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.

KJB-1769 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.

KJB-1611 And it came to passe, because the midwiues feared God, that hee made them houses.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps And it came to passe, that because the midwifes feared God, he made them houses.
(And it came to pass, that because the midwives feared God, he made them houses.)

Gnva And because ye midwiues feared God, therefore he made them houses.
(And because ye/you_all midwives feared God, therefore he made them houses.)

Cvdl And for so moch as the mydwyues feared God, he made them houses.
(And for so much as the midwives feared God, he made them houses.)

Wycl And for the mydewyues dredden God, he bildide `housis to hem.
(And for the midwives dreaded God, he built houses to hem.)

Luth Und weil die Wehmütter GOtt fürchteten, bauete er ihnen Häuser.
(And because the midwives God feared, built he to_them houses(n).)

ClVg Et quia timuerunt obstetrices Deum, ædificavit eis domos.
(And because they_were_afraid midwives God, he_built to_them houses.)

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result

כִּֽי־יָֽרְא֥וּ הַֽ⁠מְיַלְּדֹ֖ת אֶת־הָ⁠אֱלֹהִ֑ים

(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_was that/for/because/then/when feared the,midwives DOM the=ʼElohīm and=he/it_made to/for=them families )

This is the reason for what God did. If it would be more natural in your language, you could rearrange verses 20–21 so that the reason (verses 21) comes before both the general and specific results.

Note 2 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result

וַ⁠יַּ֥עַשׂ לָ⁠הֶ֖ם בָּתִּֽים

(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_was that/for/because/then/when feared the,midwives DOM the=ʼElohīm and=he/it_made to/for=them families )

This describes the result of the midwives fearing God with a specific statement. If it would be more natural in your language, you could rearrange verses 20–21 so that the reason (verses 21) comes before both the general and specific results.

בָּתִּֽים

(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_was that/for/because/then/when feared the,midwives DOM the=ʼElohīm and=he/it_made to/for=them families )

Alternate translation: [households]

Parallel EXO 1:21