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LXX2012

1 Esdras 5:72

But the heathen of the land lying heavy upon the inhabitants of Judea, and holding them strait, hindered their building;

Parallel Translations

LXXView canonical →
But the heathen of the land lying heavy upon the inhabitants of Judea, and holding them strait, hindered their building;
Brenton's Septuagint Translation
KJVView canonical →
But the heathen of the land lying heavy upon the inhabitants of Judea, and holding them strait, hindered their building;
King James Version
WEBView canonical →
But the heathen of the land pressed hard upon the inhabitants of Judea, cut off their supplies, and hindered their building.
World English Bible
GNV1560View canonical →
Howbeit the people of the land made them sluggish that were in Iudea, and letted them to buyld the worke, and by their ambushments and seditions & conspiracies hindred the finishing of the buylding,
Geneva Bible (1560) Apocrypha