Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

But of the cities of these people, which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes.

New American Standard Bible

Only in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes.

King James Version

But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

Holman Bible

However, you must not let any living thing survive among the cities of these people the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

International Standard Version

"You are not to leave even one person alive in the cities of these nations that the LORD your God is about to give you as an inheritance.

A Conservative Version

But of the cities of these peoples, that LORD thy God gives thee for an inheritance, thou shall save alive nothing that breathes,

American Standard Version

But of the cities of these peoples, that Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth;

Amplified

Only in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes.

Bible in Basic English

But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, let no living thing be kept from death:

Darby Translation

But of the cities of these peoples which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth,

Julia Smith Translation

Only of the cities of these peoples which Jehovah thy God gave to thee an inheritance, thou shalt not preserve alive and breathing:

King James 2000

But of the cities of these people, which the LORD your God does give you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes:

Lexham Expanded Bible

But from the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you as an inheritance, you shall not let anything live that breathes.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But in the cities of these nations which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth.

NET Bible

As for the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing to survive.

New Heart English Bible

But of the cities of these peoples, that the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;

The Emphasized Bible

But of the cities of these peoples which Yahweh thy God is giving unto thee as an inheritance, shalt thou not save alive, any breathing thing.

Webster

But of the cities of these people which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

World English Bible

But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;

Youngs Literal Translation

Only, of the cities of these peoples which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee for an inheritance, thou dost not keep alive any breathing;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
But of the cities
עיר ער עיר 
`iyr 
Usage: 1094

עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

which the Lord

Usage: 0

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

נחלה 
Nachalah 
Usage: 222

חיה 
Chayah 
Usage: 264

References

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Context Readings

Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity

15 So you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations. 16 But of the cities of these people, which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes. 17 But you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; as Jehovah your God has commanded you,



Cross References

Joshua 11:14

And all the spoil of these cities and the cattle the sons of Israel took for a prize to themselves. But they struck every man with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They left none breathing.

Numbers 21:2-3

And Israel vowed a vow to Jehovah and said, If You will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will completely destroy their cities.

Numbers 33:52

then you shall drive out all those who live in the land from before you, and destroy all their carved images, and destroy all their molded images and pluck down all their high places.

Deuteronomy 7:1-4

When Jehovah your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you,

Exodus 23:31-33

And I will stretch your bounds from the Red Sea even to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the river. For I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

Numbers 21:35

So they struck him and his sons and all his people, until there was none left him alive. And they possessed his land.

Deuteronomy 7:16

And you shall destroy all the people which Jehovah your God shall deliver you. Your eye shall have no pity upon them, neither shall you serve their gods, for they will be a snare to you.

Joshua 6:17-21

And the city shall be devoted to Jehovah, it and all in it. Only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

Joshua 9:24

And they answered Joshua and said, Because it was certainly told your servants how Jehovah your God commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all those who lived in the land from before you; therefore, we were very much afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

Joshua 9:27

And Joshua made them that day woodcutters and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of Jehovah, even to this day, in the place which He should choose.

Joshua 10:28

And that day Joshua took Makkedah and struck it with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed the king of it, them, and every soul in it. He let none remain. And he did to the king of Makkedah as he did to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 10:40

And Joshua struck all the land, the hills, and the south, and the valley, and the springs, and all their kings. He left none remaining, but destroyed all that breathed, as Jehovah, the God of Israel commanded.

Joshua 11:11-12

And they struck every soul in it with the edge of the sword, destroying them. And he left none breathing. And he burned Hazor with fire.

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