JOS 24:16 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=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 ἀποκριθεὶς ὁ λαὸς εἶπε, μὴ γένοιτο ἡμῖν καταλιπεῖν Κύριον, ὥστε λατρεύειν θεοῖς ἑτέροις.
(Kai apokritheis ho laos eipe, maʸ genoito haʸmin katalipein Kurion, hōste latreuein theois heterois. )

BrTr And the people answered and said, Far be it from us to forsake the Lord, so as to serve other gods.

ULT And the people answered and said, “Profane to us from leaving Yahweh to serve other gods!

UST The Israelites responded, “We would never abandon Yahweh and worship other gods!

OEB The people replied, ‘Far be it from us to forsake the Lord and serve other gods!

WEBBE The people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;

WMBB (Same as above)

NET The people responded, “Far be it from us to abandon the Lord so we can worship other gods!

LSV And the people answer and say, “Far be it from us to forsake YHWH, to serve other gods;

FBV The people responded, “We are never going to give up on the Lord and worship other gods!

T4T The Israeli people answered, “We will never quit serving/worshiping Yahweh! We would never think of [IDM] serving/worshiping other gods!

LEB And the people answered and said, “Far be it from us that we would forsake Yahweh to serve other gods,

BBE Then the people in answer said, Never will we give up the Lord to be the servants of other gods;

Moff The people replied, “Far be it from us to forsake the Eternal and serve other gods!

JPS And the people answered and said: 'Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;

ASV And the people answered and said, Far be it from us that we should forsake Jehovah, to serve other gods;

DRA And the people answered, and said: God forbid we should leave the Lord, and serve strange gods.

YLT And the people answer and say, 'Far be it from us to forsake Jehovah, to serve other gods;

Drby And the people answered and said, Far be it from us that we should forsake Jehovah, to serve other [fn]gods;

24.16 Elohim

RV And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;

SLT An the people will answer and say, Woe to us forsaking Jehovah to serve other gods;

Wbstr And the people answered, and said, Be it far from us that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;

KJB-1769 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;

KJB-1611 And the people answered and said, God forbid that wee should forsake the LORD, to serue other gods.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps The people aunswered and sayd: God forbyd, that we should forsake the Lord, and serue straunge goddes.
(The people answered and said: God forbyd, that we should forsake the Lord, and serve strange gods.)

Gnva Then the people answered and saide, God forbid, that we shoulde forsake the Lord, to serue other gods.
(Then the people answered and said, God forbid, that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods. )

Cvdl Then answered the people, and saide: God forbidde, that we shulde forsake the LORDE, & serue other goddes.
(Then answered the people, and said: God forbidde, that we should forsake the LORD, and serve other gods.)

Wycl And al the puple answeride and seide, Fer be it fro vs that we forsake the Lord, and serue alien goddis.
(And all the people answered and said, Fer be it from us that we forsake the Lord, and serve alien/foreign(er) gods.)

Luth Da antwortete das Volk und sprach: Das sei ferne von uns, daß wir den HErr’s verlassen und andern Göttern dienen!
(So replied the people and spoke: The be distant from us/to_us/ourselves, that we/us the LORD’s leave and change gods serve/be_of_service!)

ClVg Responditque populus, et ait: Absit a nobis ut relinquamus Dominum, et serviamus diis alienis.
(Responditque the_people, and he_said: Absit from us as relinquamus the_Master, and serviamus gods strangers. )

SOTN SIL Open Translator’s Notes:

Section 24:1–33: Israel renewed their covenant with Yahweh

In this section Joshua called the people of Israel together to affirm that they would worship and obey only Yahweh. He warned them that Yahweh would bring disaster on them if they worshiped other gods. Then Joshua died and was buried.

Here are some other possible section headings:

Renewing the covenant at Shechem

The Israelites promise to worship only Yahweh

24:16a

The people replied,

¶ Then the people said to Joshua,
¶ Then all the people answered,

The Hebrew conjunction that the BSB leaves untranslated but some English versions translate as “and” introduces the next event in the storyline. Introduce this next event in a way that is natural in your language.

The people replied: The people refers to the Israelites who were gathered with Joshua.

Here is another way to translate this part of the verse:

Then the people said to Joshua,

The people replied to him,

24:16b

“Far be it from us to forsake the LORD to serve other gods!

“We^(excl) will certainly never leave Yahweh and worship other gods.
“May that never happen! We will never abandon Yahweh. We will never obey other gods.

Far be it from us: The Hebrew phrase that the BSB translates as Far be it from us is more literally “to that which is profane.” This is a Hebrew idiom which indicates an emphatic rejection of something. It indicates that the people would certainly not forsake Yahweh.

Translate this Hebrew idiom with a word or phrase that indicates an emphatic decision to take a certain path.

to forsake the LORD to serve other gods: The Israelites made a strong statement that they would not turn from Yahweh to worship other gods.

Here are some other ways to translate this part of the verse:

We^(excl) will never leave Yahweh and worship other gods.

Absolutely not! We will never abandon Yahweh. We will never worship other gods.

Parallel JOS 24:16

Section 24:1–33: Israel renewed their covenant with Yahweh

24:16a

24:16b