JOS 13:22 Parallel Verse View

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BrLXX Καὶ τὸν Βαλαὰμ τὸν τοῦ Βαιὼρ τὸν μάντιν ἀπέκτειναν ἐν τῇ ῥοπῇ.
(Kai ton Balaʼam ton tou Baiōr ton mantin apekteinan en taʸ ɽopaʸ. )

ULT And the sons of Israel slew with the sword Balaam, the son of Beor, the diviner, with the slain.

UST When the Israelites used their swords to kill many of their enemies, they also killed Balaam son of Beor. He was a man who tried to use magic to tell the future.

OEB Balaam the son of Beor, who used magic to divine the future, was also slaughtered by the Israelites among the rest of the slain.

WEBBE The children of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor, the soothsayer, with the sword, amongst the rest of their slain.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET The Israelites killed Balaam son of Beor, the omen reader, along with the others.

LSV And the sons of Israel have slain Balaam, son of Beor, the diviner, with the sword, among their wounded ones.

FBV At the same time the Israelites killed Balaam, son of Beor, the fortune-teller, along with the others who were slaughtered.

T4T The Israeli army killed many people during those battles, including Balaam, the prophet from Beor, who tried to use magic to predict/tell what would happen in the future.

LEB In addition to their slain, the _⌊Israelites_⌋[fn] killed with the sword Balaam son of Beor, who practiced divination.

13:22 Literally “sons/children of Israel”

BBE And Balaam, the son of Beor, the prophet, the children of Israel put to death with the sword.

Moff Balaam the son of Bedr, the oracle-monger, was also slaughtered by the Israelites among the rest of the slain.

JPS Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among the rest of their slain.

ASV Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among the rest of their slain.

DRA Balaam also the son of Beer the soothsayer, the children of Israel slew with the sword among the rest that were slain.

YLT And Balaam, son of Beor, the diviner, have the sons of Israel slain with the sword, among their wounded ones.

Drby And Balaam the son of Beor, the diviner, did the children of Israel kill with the sword among them that were slain by them.

RV Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among the rest of their slain.
(Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among the rest of their slain/killed. )

SLT And Balaam son of Beor, divining, the sons of Israel slew with the sword to those being wounded by them.

Wbstr Balaam also the son of Beor, the sooth-sayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword, among them that were slain by them.

KJB-1769 ¶ Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.[fn]
(¶ Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain/killed by them. )

13.22 soothsayer: or, diviner

KJB-1611 ¶ Balaam also the sonne of Beor the [fn]Sooth-sayer did the children of Israel slay with the sword, among them that were slaine by them.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation and punctuation and footnotes)

13:22 Or, diuiner

Bshps And Balaam also the sonne of Beor the soothsayer, did the childre of Israel slay with the sworde among other of them that were slayne.
(And Balaam also the son of Beor the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among other of them that were slain/killed.)

Gnva And Balaam the sonne of Beor the soothsayer did the children of Israel slay with the sword, among them that were slaine.
(And Balaam the son of Beor the soothsayer did the children of Israel slay with the sword, among them that were slain/killed. )

Cvdl And Balaam the sonne of Beor the prophecier, dyd the children of Israel kyll with the swerde amonge the other that were slayne:
(And Balaam the son of Beor the prophecier, did the children of Israel kill with the sword among the other that were slain/killed:)

Wycl And the sones of Israel killiden bi swerd Balaam, the fals diuynour, the sone of Beor, with othere men slayn.
(And the sons of Israel killed by sword Balaam, the false diuynour, the son of Beor, with other men slain/killed.)

Luth Dazu Bileam, den Sohn Beors, den Weissager, erwürgeten die Kinder Israel mit dem Schwert samt den Erschlagenen.
(In_addition Bileam, the son Beors, the Prophesy(v)r, strangled the children Israel with to_him sword together_with the slain_(one).)

ClVg Et Balaam filium Beor ariolum occiderunt filii Israël gladio cum ceteris interfectis.
(And Balaam son Beor diviner they_killed children Israel with_a_sword when/with to_others having_been_killed. )

SOTN SIL Open Translator’s Notes:

Section 13:1–33 Moses had distributed the land east of the Jordan River

Before Moses died he had given land to the tribes of Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh. In this section Yahweh reminded Joshua of the land that they still had not conquered. Then there is a detailed listing of the boundaries of the lands on the east side of the Jordan River.

Here is another possible section heading:

The land east of the Jordan River

13:22a

The Israelites also killed the diviner Balaam son of Beor

The Israelites killed Balaam, son of Beor, who cast lots to predict the future,
The Israelite soldiers also killed Balaam, the son of Beor, who used magic to tell the future,

The Israelites also killed: In some languages it is more natural to restructure verse 22 so that it begins with the subject, The Israelites. The term The Israelites indicates the Israelite soldiers. The Israelites soldiers killed Balaam.

also: The word also is not in the Hebrew text. It is added in the BSB to show that Balaam is a new topic. Choose the word order or lexical means that is most natural in your language to do this.

the diviner Balaam son of Beor: In this verse the diviner Balaam son of Beor is the object of the verb. In Hebrew the object is sometimes put at the beginning of the sentence to show emphasis.

the diviner: The word diviner indicates a person who predicted the future by casting lots. The lots were probably small stones. The word diviner refers to Balaam, not to Beor his father.

Here are some other ways to translate this word:

the one who practiced divination (ESV

who used black magic (GW)

fortune teller (GNT)

who used magic to tell the future (NLT)

13:22b

along with the others they put to the sword.

along with other people.
and some other people.

along with the others: The phrase along with the others indicates that the Israelites killed other people at the same time that they killed Balaam.

Here is another way to translate this verse:

The Israelites killed many people during the fighting, including Balaam, son of Beor, who tried to use magic to tell the future (NCV)

they put to the sword: The phrase that the BSB translates as they put to the sword is a Hebrew idiom. It indicates that they killed these people.

Here is another way to translate this Hebrew idiom:

they killed

Parallel JOS 13:22

Section 13:1–33 Moses had distributed the land east of the Jordan River

13:22a

13:22b

Tribal Allotments of the Promised Land