Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.
Parallel translations
- KJV Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;
- BSB Take your weapons—your quiver and bow—and go out into the field to hunt some game for me.
- ESV Now then, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me,
- NKJV Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me.
- NASB Now then, please take your gear, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me;
- NLT Take your bow and a quiver full of arrows, and go out into the open country to hunt some wild game for me.
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Cross-references · 3
- Gen 25:27–28The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
- Gen 10:9He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, “like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh”.
- 1 Cor 6:12“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.
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