Luke 14:19 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁹ And another person said, ‘I just bought five teams of oxen and I need to go and try them out, so please excuse me [from attending the supper].’

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to examine and put my approval on them; I beg you, have me excused.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them; I pray thee have me excused.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ Another said, ‘I bought five teams of oxen, and I’m going to check on them. Please excuse me.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ And another said: 'I bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to examine them. I ask you to excuse me.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ And another said: I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to try them: I pray thee, hold me excused.

Luke 14:19 Cross References

Luke 14:18

Then all of them, in the same way, began to excuse themselves [from attending]. The first one said to the host, ‘I just bought some land and I need to go out and look it over, so please excuse me [from attending the supper].’

Luke 14:20

And the third person said, ‘I just got married, so I cannot attend [the supper].’