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LXX2012

1 Esdras 1:16

Moreover the porters were at every gate; it was not lawful for any to go from his ordinary service: for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.

Parallel Translations

LXXView canonical →
Moreover the porters [were] at every gate; it was not lawful for any to go from his ordinary service: for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.
Brenton's Septuagint Translation
KJVView canonical →
Moreover the porters were at every gate; it was not lawful for any to go from his ordinary service: for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.
King James Version
WEBView canonical →
Moreover the gatekeepers were at every gate. No one needed to depart from his daily duties, for their kindred the Levites prepared for them.
World English Bible
GNV1560View canonical →
And the porters were at euerie gate, so that it was not lawful, that anie shulde passe his ordinarie watche: for their brethren the Leuites made readie for them.
Geneva Bible (1560) Apocrypha