1 Kings 8:31
Modern Translations
New International Version
"When anyone wrongs their neighbor and is required to take an oath and they come and swear the oath before your altar in this temple,

New Living Translation
“If someone wrongs another person and is required to take an oath of innocence in front of your altar in this Temple,

English Standard Version
“If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house,

Berean Study Bible
When a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before Your altar in this temple,

New American Standard Bible
“If a person sins against his neighbor and is compelled to take an oath of innocence, and he comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this house,

NASB 1995
"If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath, and he comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this house,

NASB 1977
“If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath, and he comes and takes an oath before Thine altar in this house,

Amplified Bible
“If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath [of innocence] and he comes to take the oath before Your altar in this house (temple),

Christian Standard Bible
When a man sins against his neighbor and is forced to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before your altar in this temple,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When a man sins against his neighbor and is forced to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before Your altar in this temple,

Contemporary English Version
Suppose someone accuses a person of a crime, and the accused has to stand in front of the altar in your temple and say, "I swear I am innocent!"

Good News Translation
"When a person is accused of wronging another and is brought to your altar in this Temple to take an oath that he is innocent,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"If anyone sins against another person and is required to take an oath and comes to take the oath in front of your altar in this temple,

International Standard Version
"If a man should sin against his neighbor and he is required to take an oath, and he then comes to take an oath in front of your altar in this Temple,

NET Bible
"When someone is accused of sinning against his neighbor and the latter pronounces a curse on the alleged offender before your altar in this temple, be willing to forgive the accused if the accusation is false.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house:

New King James Version
“When anyone sins against his neighbor, and is forced to take an oath, and comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this temple,

King James 2000 Bible
If any man trespasses against his neighbor, and an oath is required of him to cause him to swear, and the oath comes before your altar in this house:

New Heart English Bible
"If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swear before your altar in this house;

World English Bible
"If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swear before your altar in this house;

American King James Version
If any man trespass against his neighbor, and an oath be laid on him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before your altar in this house:

American Standard Version
If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and he come and'swear before thine altar in this house;

A Faithful Version
If any man sins against his neighbor, and if an oath is laid upon him to cause him to swear, and if the oath comes before Your altar in this house,

Darby Bible Translation
If a man have sinned against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to adjure him, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;

English Revised Version
If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and he come and swear before thine altar in this house:

Webster's Bible Translation
If any man shall trespass against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thy altar in this house:

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
When a man shall trespasse against his neighbour, & he lay vpon him an othe to cause him to sweare, and the swearer shall come before thine altar in this house,

Bishops' Bible of 1568
If any man trespasse against his neyghbour, & there go an oth betweene them, and the one compel the other, and come, swearing before thyne aulter in this house:

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Whan eny ma synneth agaynst his neghboure, and taketh vpon him an ooth wherwith he byndeth him selfe, and ye ooth commeth before thine altare in this house,
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
that which a man sins against his neighbor, and he has lifted up an oath on him to cause him to swear, and the oath has come in before Your altar in this house,

Young's Literal Translation
that which a man sinneth against his neighbour, and he hath lifted up upon him an oath to cause him to swear, and the oath hath come in before Thine altar in this house,

Smith's Literal Translation
Whatever man shall sin against his neighbor, and an oath lifted up upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house,

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
If any man trespass against his neighbour, and have an oath upon him, wherewith he is bound: and come because of the oath before thy altar to thy house,

Catholic Public Domain Version
But if any man sins against his neighbor, and he has any kind of an oath by which he is bound, and he arrives because of the oath, before your altar in your house,

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
If a man shall sin against his fellow man and he will owe oaths upon his oath, and will come and will swear before your altar in this house

Lamsa Bible
If any man sins against his neighbor and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear and he comes and swears before thine altar in this house;

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be exacted of him to cause him to swear, and he come and swear before Thine altar in this house;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Whatsoever trespasses any one shall commit against his neighbor, - and if he shall take upon him an oath so that he should swear, and he shall come and make confession before thine altar in this house,
















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