They answered, “We will willingly give them.” They spread a garment, and every man threw the earrings of his plunder into it.
Parallel translations
- KJV And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey.
- BSB “We will give them gladly,” they replied. So they spread out a garment, and each man threw an earring from his plunder onto it.
- NKJV So they answered, “We will gladly give them.” And they spread out a garment, and each man threw into it the earrings from his plunder.
- NASB And they said, “We will certainly give them to you.” So they spread out a garment, and every one of them tossed an earring there from his plunder.
- NLT “Gladly!” they replied. They spread out a cloak, and each one threw in a gold earring he had gathered from the plunder.
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