1 Chronicles 4:27
What does 1 Chronicles 4:27 mean?
A plain-English look at 1 Chronicles 4:27 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
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WEB
World English Bible · 2000And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply like to the children of Judah.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply, like to the children of Judah.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply like to the children of Judah.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers had only a small number of children, and their family was not as fertile as the children of Judah.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And to Shimei <FI>are<Fi> sixteen sons and six daughters, and to his brethren there are not many sons, and none of their families have multiplied as much as the sons of Judah.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752The sons of Semei were sixteen, and six daughters: but his brethren had not many sons, and the whole kindred could not reach to the sum of the children of Juda.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890and Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters. And his brethren had not many sons; neither did all their family multiply like to the sons of Judah.
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Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 2:4
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
- Numbers 26:14
These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.
- Numbers 2:13
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
- Numbers 26:22
These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred.
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