Exodus 32:28
Modern Translations
New International Version
The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died.

New Living Translation
The Levites obeyed Moses’ command, and about 3,000 people died that day.

English Standard Version
And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And that day about three thousand men of the people fell.

Berean Study Bible
The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people fell dead.

New American Standard Bible
So the sons of Levi did as Moses instructed, and about three thousand men of the people fell that day.

NASB 1995
So the sons of Levi did as Moses instructed, and about three thousand men of the people fell that day.

NASB 1977
So the sons of Levi did as Moses instructed, and about three thousand men of the people fell that day.

Amplified Bible
So the sons of Levi did as Moses instructed, and about three thousand men of the people [of Israel] were killed that day.

Christian Standard Bible
The Levites did as Moses commanded, and about three thousand men fell dead that day among the people.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The Levites did as Moses commanded, and about 3,000 men fell dead that day among the people.

Contemporary English Version
The men of the Levi tribe followed his orders, and that day they killed about 3,000 men.

Good News Translation
The Levites obeyed, and killed about three thousand men that day.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The Levites did what Moses told them, and that day about 3,000 people died.

International Standard Version
The descendants of Levi did just as Moses told them, and about 3,000 people died that day.

NET Bible
The Levites did what Moses ordered, and that day about three thousand men of the people died.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

New King James Version
So the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And about three thousand men of the people fell that day.

King James 2000 Bible
And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

New Heart English Bible
The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

World English Bible
The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

American King James Version
And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

American Standard Version
And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

A Faithful Version
And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And there fell of the people that day about three thousand men;

Darby Bible Translation
And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

English Revised Version
And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
So the children of Leui did as Moses had commanded: and there fel of the people the same day about three thousand men.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And the chyldre of Leui dyd as Moyses had said: And there fel of the people ye same day about three thousande men.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
The children of Leui dyd, as Moses sayde vnto them. And there fell of the people the same daye thre thousande men.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
And the childern of Leui dyd as Moses had sayde. And there were slayne of the people the same daye, aboute thre thousande men.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And the sons of Levi do according to the word of Moses, and there falls of the people on that day about three thousand men,

Young's Literal Translation
And the sons of Levi do according to the word of Moses, and there fall of the people on that day about three thousand men,

Smith's Literal Translation
And the sons of Levi will do according to the word of Moses: and there will fall from the people in that day about three thousand men.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the sons of Levi did according to the words of Moses, and there were slain that day about three and twenty thousand men.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And the sons of Levi did according to the words of Moses, and there fell on that day about twenty-three thousand men.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And Moshe said to them, “Thus says LORD JEHOVAH, God of Israel, ‘Throw a man his sword around his waist and pass through and turn from door to door in the camp, and kill each man his brother, and each man his neighbor, and each man his relative.”

Lamsa Bible
And the Levites did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the sons of Levi did as Moses spoke to them, and there fell of the people in that day to the number of three thousand men.
















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