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Exodus 32:27

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32:27and he said to them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Each man fasten58 his sword on his side, and go back and forth59 from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and each one kill his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’ ”60

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Footnotes

  1. 58 Heb “put.”
  2. 59 The two imperatives form a verbal hendiadys: “pass over and return,” meaning, “go back and forth” throughout the camp.
  3. 60 The phrases have “and kill a man his brother, and a man his companion, and a man his neighbor.” The instructions were probably intended to mean that they should kill leaders they knew to be guilty because they had been seen or because they failed the water test—whoever they were.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

And he said to them, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘Put your sword on your side each of you, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and each of you kill his brother and his companion and his neighbor.’ ”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Then he said to them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor.’ ”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

He told them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘Every man fasten his sword to his side; go back and forth through the camp from entrance to entrance, and each of you kill his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’ ”

NLTNew Living Translation

Moses told them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Each of you, take your swords and go back and forth from one end of the camp to the other. Kill everyone—even your brothers, friends, and neighbors.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And he said to them, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Put each his sword on his side. Go back and forth from gate to gate in the camp, and kill, each his brother and each his friend and each his close relative.’ ”

KJV 1900King James Version

And he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.