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Ecclesiastes 8:2

NETBible	Obey the king’s command,¹ because you took² an oath before God³ to be loyal to him.⁴
NIV © biblegateway Ecc 8:2	Obey the king’s command, I say, because you took an oath before God.
NASB © biblegateway Ecc 8:2	I say, "Keep the command of the king because of the oath before God.
NLT © biblegateway Ecc 8:2	Obey the king because you have vowed before God to do this.
MSG © biblegateway Ecc 8:2	Do what your king commands; you gave a sacred oath of obedience.
BBE © SABDAweb Ecc 8:2	I say to you, Keep the king’s law, from respect for the oath of God.
NRSV © bibleoremus Ecc 8:2	Keep the king’s command because of your sacred oath.
NKJV © biblegateway Ecc 8:2	I say , "Keep the king’s commandment for the sake of your oath to God.
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KJV	I [counsel thee] to keep <08104> (8798) the king's <04428> commandment <06310>_, and [that] in regard <01700> of the oath <07621> of God <0430>_.
NASB © biblegateway Ecc 8:2	I say, "Keep <08104> the command <06310> of the king <04428> because <05921> <1697> of the oath <07621> before God <0430> .
LXXM	stoma <4750> N-ASN basilewv <935> N-GSM fulaxon <5442> V-AAD-2S kai <2532> CONJ peri <4012> PREP logou <3056> N-GSM orkou <3727> N-GSM yeou <2316> N-GSM mh <3165> ADV spoudashv <4704> V-AAS-2S
NET [draft] ITL	Obey <08104> the king’s <04428> command <06310> , because <01700> you took an oath <07621> before God <0430> to be loyal to him.
HEBREW	Myhla <0430> tewbs <07621> trbd <01700> lew <05921> rwms <08104> Klm <04428> yp <06310> yna (8:2) <0589>

NETBible

Obey the king’s command,¹ because you took² an oath before God³ to be loyal to him.⁴

NET Notes

¹tc The Leningrad Codex (the basis of BHS) reads אֲנִי (’ani, 1st person common singular independent personal pronoun): “I obey the king’s command.” Other medieval Hebrew mss and all the versions (LXX, Vulgate, Targum, Syriac Peshitta) preserve an alternate textual tradition of the definite accusative marker אֶת־ (’et) introducing the direct object: אֶת־פִּי־מֶלֶךְ שְׁמוֹר (’et-pi-melekh shÿmor, “Obey the command of the king”). External evidence supports the alternate textual tradition. The MT is guilty of simple orthographic confusion between similar looking letters. The BHS editors and the Hebrew Old Testament Text Project adopt אֶת־ as the original reading. See D. Barthélemy, ed., Preliminary and Interim Report on the Hebrew Old Testament Text Project, 3:582–83.

²tn The phrase “you took” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for smoothness.

³tn The genitive-construct שְׁבוּעַת אֱלֹהִים (shÿvu’at ’elohim, “an oath of God”) functions as a genitive of location (“an oath before God”) or an adjectival genitive of attribute (“a supreme oath”).

⁴tn The words “to be loyal to him” do not appear in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarification.