Judges 7:6 — Compare Translations

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English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

And the number of those lapping with their hand unto their mouth is three hundred men, and all the rest of the people have bowed down on their knees to drink water.

English ASV

And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.

English Amplified

And the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was 300 men, but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

And the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was 300 men, but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

And the number of those who lapped the water with their hands to their mouths was three hundred men; all the others knelt to drink.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

The number of those who lapped with their hands to their mouths was three hundred men, and all the rest of the troops knelt to drink water.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

And the number of them that lapped, with their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men; and all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water.

English EASY 2024

300 men used their tongues to drink the water. The other men all went down on their knees to drink.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

There were 300 men who used their hands to bring water to their mouth and lapped it like a dog does. All the other people bent down and drank the water.

And the number of those who lapped, putting their hands to their mouths, was 300 men, but all the rest of the people knelt down to drink water.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

There were three hundred men who scooped up water in their hands and lapped it; all the others got down on their knees to drink.

English God's Word - GW 1995

Three hundred men lapped water with their hands to their mouths. All the rest of the men knelt down to drink water.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

The number of those who lapped with their hands to their mouths was 300 men, and all the rest of the people knelt to drink water.

English KJV 1611

And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.

English LSB

Now the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was 300 men; but all the rest of the people kneeled to drink water.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

The number of those who lapped, putting their hands to their mouths, was three hundred. The rest of the people had knelt to drink water.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

Now the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was 300 men; but all the rest of the people kneeled to drink water.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

Those who lapped up the water raised to their mouths by hand numbered three hundred, but all the rest of the soldiers knelt down to drink the water.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

Three hundred men lapped; the rest of the men kneeled to drink water.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

Three hundred men lapped up the water. They brought it up to their mouths with their hands. All of the rest got down on their knees to drink.

English NIV

Three hundred men lapped with their hands to their mouths. All the rest got down on their knees to drink.

English NKJ 1982

And the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people got down on their knees to drink water.

English NLT

Only three hundred of the men drank from their hands. All the others got down on their knees and drank with their mouths in the stream.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

The number of those that lapped was three hundred; but all the rest of the troops knelt down to drink water.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

Of the ten thousand men, only three hundred lapped water from their cupped hands; all the others knelt to drink.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

And the number of those that lapped, putting their hands to their mouths, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people knelt down to drink water.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

Only three hundred of the men drank from their hands; all the others drank with their mouths to the stream.

English Tyndale 1537

And the number of them that put their hands to their mouths and lapped, were three hundredth men. And all the remnant of the people knelt down upon their knees to drink water.