For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
Parallel translations
- WEB For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey.
- BSB For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.
- NKJV For my husband is not at home; He has gone on a long journey;
- NASB “For my husband is not at home; He has gone on a long journey.
- NLT for my husband is not home. He’s away on a long trip.
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Quick answer
She assures him her husband is away on a long journey. Sin promises secrecy and freedom from consequence.
Overview
Reassuring him that her husband is absent, she offers the illusion of safety in their sin. This appeal to secrecy seeks to silence his fear of being caught. The verse exposes the lie that hidden sin will escape exposure and accountability.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Matt 20:11And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,
- Luke 12:45–46But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
- Matt 24:43But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
- Luke 12:39And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
- Matt 24:48But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
- Mark 13:34–36For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
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