Parallel 1KI 12:4

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OEB ‘Your father made our yoke intolerable. Now therefore make the intolerable service of your father and the heavy yoke he laid upon us lighter, and we will serve you.’

WEBBE “Your father made our yoke difficult. Now therefore make the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”

WMBB (Same as above)

NET “Your father made us work too hard. Now if you lighten the demands he made and don’t make us work as hard, we will serve you.”

LSV “Your father hardened our yoke, and you, now, lighten [some] of the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke that he put on us, and we serve you.”

FBV “Your father placed a heavy burden on us,” they told him. “But now if you lighten the load when we served your father and the heavy demands he put on us, we will serve you.”

T4T “Your father Solomon forced us to work very hard [MET] for him. If you ◄lighten these loads/do not force us to work that hard►, and if you charge us less taxes than we were paying to him, we will serve you faithfully.”

LEB “Your father made our yoke heavy; now lighten the hard labor of your father and the heavy yoke which he placed on us, and we will serve you.”

BBE Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.

Moff No Moff 1KI book available

JPS 'Thy father made our yoke grievous; now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.'

ASV Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.

DRA Thy father laid a grievous yoke upon us: now therefore do thou take off a little of the grievous service of thy father, and of his most heavy yoke, which he put upon us, and we will serve thee.

YLT 'Thy father made hard our yoke, and thou, now, make light [some] of the hard service of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we serve thee.'

Drby Thy father made our yoke grievous; and now lighten thou the grievous servitude of thy father and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.

RV Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.

Wbstr Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.

KJB-1769 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.
   (Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou/you the grievous service of thy/your father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee/you. )

KJB-1611 [fn]Thy father made our yoke grieuous: now therefore, make thou the grieuous seruice of thy father, and his heauy yoke which he put vpon vs, lighter, and we will serue thee.
   (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

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Bshps Thy father made our yocke greeuous, nowe therfore make thou the greenous seruice of thy father and his sore yocke whiche he put vpon vs, lighter, and we will serue thee.
   (Thy father made our yocke grievous, now therefore make thou/you the greenous service of thy/your father and his sore yocke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee/you.)

Gnva Thy father made our yoke grieuous: now therefore make thou the grieuous seruitude of thy father, and his sore yoke which he put vpon vs, lighter, and we will serue thee.
   (Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou/you the grievous seruitude of thy/your father, and his sore yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee/you. )

Cvdl Thy father made oure yock to harde: therfore make thou now the harde bondage and the sore yock lighter, and we wyll submytte oure selues vnto the.
   (Thy father made our yock to harde: therefore make thou/you now the hard bondage and the sore yock lighter, and we will submytte our selves unto them.)

Wycl and seiden, Thi fadir puttide hardeste yok on vs, therfor abate thou a litil now of the hardest comaundement of thi fadir, and of the greuousiste yok which he puttide on vs, and we schulen serue to thee.
   (and said, Thi father put hardeste yok on us, therefore abate thou/you a little now of the hardest commandment of thy/your father, and of the greuousiste yok which he put on us, and we should serve to thee/you.)

Luth Dein Vater hat unser Joch zu hart gemacht; so mache du nun den harten Dienst und das schwere Joch leichter, das er uns aufgelegt hat, so wollen wir dir untertänig sein.
   (Dein father has unser Yoch to hart made; so make you now the harten service and the schwere Yoch leichter, the he us/to_us/ourselves aufgelegt has, so wollen we/us you/to_you submissive/subservient sein.)

ClVg Pater tuus durissimum jugum imposuit nobis: tu itaque nunc imminue paululum de imperio patris tui durissimo, et de jugo gravissimo quod imposuit nobis, et serviemus tibi.
   (Pater tuus durissimum yugum imposuit nobis: you therefore now imminue a_little about imperio of_the_father yours durissimo, and about yugo gravissimo that imposuit nobis, and serviemus tibi. )