Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
Parallel translations
- KJV And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
- BSB So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever harms this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
- NKJV So Abimelech charged all his people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.”
- NASB So Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will certainly be put to death.”
- NLT Then Abimelech issued a public proclamation: “Anyone who touches this man or his wife will be put to death!”
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Cross-references · 4
- Ps 105:15“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”
- Gen 20:6God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.
- Prov 6:29So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.
- Zech 2:8For Yahweh of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.
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