JDT 5:5 Parallel Verse View

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

OET (OET-RV) Then Achior, the leader of all the children of Ammon, said to him, “Let my lord now hear a word from the mouth of your servant, and I will tell you the truth concerning these people who dwell in this hill country, near to the place where you dwell. No lie will come out of the mouth of your servant.

BrLXX Καὶ εἶπε πρὸς αὐτὸν Ἀχιὼρ ὁ ἡγούμενος πάντων υἱῶν Ἀμμὼν, ἀκουσάτω δὴ ὁ κύριός μου λόγον ἐκ στόματος τοῦ δούλου σου, καὶ ἀναγγελῶ σοι τὴν ἀλήθειαν περὶ τοῦ λαοῦ, ὃς κατοικεῖ τὴν ὀρεινὴν ταύτην, πλησίον σοι οἰκοῦντος, καὶ οὐκ ἐξελεύσεται ψεῦδος ἐκ τοῦ στόματος τοῦ δούλου σου.
(Kai eipe pros auton Aⱪiōr ho haʸgoumenos pantōn huiōn Ammōn, akousatō daʸ ho kurios mou logon ek stomatos tou doulou sou, kai anangelō soi taʸn alaʸtheian peri tou laou, hos katoikei taʸn oreinaʸn tautaʸn, plaʸsion soi oikountos, kai ouk exeleusetai pseudos ek tou stomatos tou doulou sou. )

BrTr Then said Achior, the captain of all the sons of Ammon, Let my lord now hear a word from the mouth of thy servant, and I will declare unto thee the truth concerning this people, which dwelleth near thee, and inhabiteth the hill countries: and there shall no lie come out of the mouth of thy servant.

WEBBE Then Achior, the leader of all the children of Ammon, said to him, “Let my lord now hear a word from the mouth of your servant, and I will tell you the truth concerning these people who dwell in this hill country, near to the place where you dwell. No lie will come out of the mouth of your servant.

DRA Then Achior captain of all the children of Ammon answering, said: If thou vouch safe, my lord, to hear, I will tell the truth in thy sight concerning this people, that dwelleth in the mountains, and there shall not a false word come out of my mouth.

RV And Achior, the leader of all the children of Ammon, said unto him,
¶ Let my lord now hear a word from the mouth of thy servant, and I will tell thee the truth concerning this people, which dwelleth in this hill country, nigh unto the place where thou dwellest: and there shall no lie come out of the mouth of thy servant.
(And Achior, the leader of all the children of Ammon, said unto him,
¶ Let my lord now hear a word from the mouth of thy/your servant, and I will tell thee/you the truth concerning this people, which dwelleth/dwells in this hill country, nigh unto the place where thou/you dwellest/dwell: and there shall no lie come out of the mouth of thy/your servant. )

KJB-1769 Then said Achior, the captain of all the sons of Ammon, Let my lord now hear a word from the mouth of thy servant, and I will declare unto thee the truth concerning this people, which dwelleth near thee, and inhabiteth the hill countries: and there shall no lie come out of the mouth of thy servant.
(Then said Achior, the captain of all the sons of Ammon, Let my lord now hear a word from the mouth of thy/your servant, and I will declare unto thee/you the truth concerning this people, which dwelleth/dwells near thee/you, and inhabiteth the hill countries: and there shall no lie come out of the mouth of thy/your servant. )

KJB-1611 Then said Achior, the captaine of all the sonnes of Ammon: Let my lord now heare a word from the mouth of thy seruant, and I will declare vnto thee the trueth, concerning this people which dwelleth neere thee, and inhabiteth the hill countreys: and there shall no lie come out of the mouth of thy seruant.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Wycl Than Achior, duyk of alle the sones of Amon, answerde and seide, My lord, if thou vouchist saaf to here, Y schal seie treuthe in thi siyt of this puple that dwellith in the hilli places, and a fals word schal not go out of my mouth.
(Than Achior, duke of all the sons of Amon, answered and said, My lord, if thou/you vouchist safe to here, I shall say truth in thy/your sight of this people that dwelleth/dwells in the hilli places, and a false word shall not go out of my mouth.)

Parallel JDT 5:5