Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, “Drive, and go forward! Don’t slow down for me, unless I ask you to.”
Parallel translations
- KJV Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee.
- BSB Then she saddled the donkey and told her servant, “Drive onward; do not slow the pace for me unless I tell you.”
- NKJV Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, “Drive, and go forward; do not slacken the pace for me unless I tell you.”
- NASB Then she saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Drive the donkey and go on; do not slow down the pace for me unless I tell you.”
- NLT So she saddled the donkey and said to the servant, “Hurry! Don’t slow down unless I tell you to.”
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- 1 Sam 25:19–20She said to her young men, “Go on before me. Behold, I am coming after you.” But she didn’t tell her husband, Nabal.
- 1 Kgs 13:23After he had eaten bread, and after he drank, he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back.
- 1 Kgs 13:13He said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled the donkey for him; and he rode on it.
- Exod 4:20Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God’s rod in his hand.
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