Verse 33

They answered him, We are Abraham's descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone: how can you say, You shall be made free?

Other Translations

• Bibeloversettelse fra KJV1611 og Textus Receptus

  De svarte ham: Vi er Abrahams sæd, og har aldri vært slaver under noen; hvordan kan du si: Dere skal bli frie?

• NT, oversatt fra gresk

  De svarte ham: 'Vi er Abrahams etterkommere, og har aldri vært slaver for noen; hvordan kan du si: 'Dere skal bli fri?'

• Norsk King James

  De svarte ham: Vi er Abrahams etterkommere, og har aldri vært slaver; hvordan kan du si: Dere skal bli frie?

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  De svarte ham: Vi er Abrahams slekt og har aldri vært slaver for noen. Hvordan kan du si: Dere skal bli frie?

• KJV/Textus Receptus til norsk

  De svarte ham: Vi er Abrahams ætt og har aldri vært i trelldom for noen. Hvordan kan du da si: Dere skal bli fri?

• Den norske oversettelsen av Det Nye Testamente

  De svarte ham: "Vi er Abrahams ætt, og aldri har vi vært slaver for noen. Hvordan kan du si at vi skal bli frie?"

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  De svarte ham: "Vi er Abrahams ætt og har aldri vært i trelldom for noen. Hvordan kan du si: 'Dere skal bli fri'?"

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  De svarte ham: «Vi er Abrahams ætt og har aldri vært underlagt noen menneskelig hersker. Hvordan sier du da at vi skal bli frie?»

• gpt4.5-preview

  De svarte ham: «Vi er Abrahams ætt og har aldri vært slaver under noen. Hvordan kan du si: Dere skal bli frie?»

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  De svarte ham: «Vi er Abrahams ætt og har aldri vært slaver under noen. Hvordan kan du si: Dere skal bli frie?»

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  De svarte ham: "Vi er Abrahams ætt og har aldri vært slaver for noen. Hvordan kan du da si: ‘Dere skal bli fri’?"

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  They answered him, "We are descendants of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How can you say, ‘You will become free’?"

• biblecontext

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• NT, oversatt fra gresk Aug2024

  De svarte ham: Vi er Abrahams ætt og har aldri vært treller for noen. Hvordan kan du da si: Dere skal bli fri?

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  De svarede ham: Vi ere Abrahams Afkom og have aldrig været Nogens Trælle; hvorledes siger du da: I skulle vorde frie?

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?

• KJV 1769 norsk

  De svarte: Vi er Abrahams ætt og har aldri vært slaver under noen. Hvordan kan du si: Dere skal bli fri?

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  De svarte ham: "Vi er Abrahams ætt, og har aldri vært i trelldom for noen. Hvordan kan du si: 'Dere skal bli frie'?"

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  De svarte ham: 'Vi er Abrahams barn og har aldri vært slave for noen; hvordan kan du si: Dere skal bli fri?'.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  De svarte ham: Vi er Abrahams ætt og har aldri vært i trelldom under noen. Hvordan kan du si: Dere skal bli fri?

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  De svarte ham: Vi er Abrahams etterkommere og har aldri vært noens treller; hvordan kan du da si at vi skal bli fri?

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  They answered him: We be Abrahams seede and were never bonde to eny man: why sayest thou then ye shalbe made fre.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Then answered they him: We are Abrahams sede, we were neuer bonde to eny man, how sayest thou then: Ye shal be fre?

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  They answered him, Wee be Abrahams seede, and were neuer bonde to any man: why sayest thou then, Ye shalbe made free?

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  They aunswered hym: We be Abrahams seede, and were neuer bonde to any man: howe sayest thou then, ye shalbe made free?

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  They answered him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, 'You will be made free?'"

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  They answered him, `Seed of Abraham we are; and to no one have we been servants at any time; how dost thou say -- Ye shall become free?'

• American Standard Version (1901)

  They answered unto him, We are Abraham's seed, and have never yet been in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  They said to him in answer, We are Abraham's seed and have never been any man's servant: why do you say, You will become free?

• World English Bible (2000)

  They answered him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, 'You will be made free?'"

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  “We are descendants of Abraham,” they replied,“and have never been anyone’s slaves! How can you say,‘You will become free’?”

Referenced Verses

• Matt 3:9 : 9 And do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as our father: for I say to you, that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
• John 8:39 : 39 They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.
• John 8:37 : 37 I know that you are Abraham's descendants; but you seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you.
• John 19:25 : 25 Now standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
• Luke 16:24-26 : 24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. 25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and you are tormented. 26 And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who would pass from here to you cannot; neither can they pass to us who would come from there.
• Gen 15:13 : 13 And He said to Abram, Know certainly that your offspring shall be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
• Exod 1:13-14 : 13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor: 14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, which they made them serve, was with rigor.
• Lev 25:42 : 42 For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
• Judg 2:18 : 18 And when the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings due to those who oppressed them and vexed them.
• Judg 3:8 : 8 Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years.
• Judg 4:3 : 3 And the children of Israel cried to the LORD, for Sisera had nine hundred chariots of iron, and for twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
• Ezra 9:9 : 9 For we were bondservants, yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, to repair its desolations, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.
• Neh 5:4-8 : 4 There were also those who said, We have borrowed money for the king's tax, against our lands and vineyards. 5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and indeed, we bring into bondage our sons and daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are already in bondage; nor is it in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards. 6 And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words. 7 Then I consulted with myself and rebuked the nobles and rulers, and said to them, You are charging interest, each one from his brother. And I called a great assembly against them. 8 And I said to them, According to our ability, we have redeemed our fellow Jews who were sold to the nations; and will you even sell your brethren, or should they be sold to us? Then they were silent and found nothing to answer.
• Neh 9:27-28 : 27 Therefore You delivered them into the hand of their enemies, who oppressed them. And in the time of their trouble, when they cried to You, You heard from heaven; and according to Your manifold mercies, You gave them deliverers who saved them from the hand of their enemies. 28 But after they had rest, they did evil again before You; therefore You abandoned them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them. Yet when they returned and cried out to You, You heard from heaven, and many times delivered them according to Your mercies.
• Neh 9:36-37 : 36 Here we are, servants today! And the land that You gave to our forefathers to eat its fruit and its bounty, here we are, servants in it. 37 And it yields much increase to the kings You have set over us because of our sins; also, they have dominion over our bodies and our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.