Bel bows down, Nevo 1 stoops; their idols are on the animals, and on the livestock: the things that you carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary [animal].
Matthew 23:4 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They tie up heavy loads, hard to bear, and place them on men's shoulders, but they themselves will not lift a finger to help bear them. American Standard Version (1901) Yea, they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger. Common English Bible For they tie together heavy packs that are impossible to carry. They put them on the shoulders of others, but are unwilling to lift a finger to move them. Catholic Public Domain Version For they bind up heavy and unbearable burdens, and they impose them on men's shoulders. But they are not willing to move them with even a finger of their own. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens, and lay them on men's shoulders; but with a finger of their own they will not move them. |
Bel bows down, Nevo 1 stoops; their idols are on the animals, and on the livestock: the things that you carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary [animal].
*Woe to you, scribes and Perushim, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the Torah: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don't do their works; for they say, and don't do.
He said, *Woe to you Torah scholars also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won't even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.
Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the talmidim which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:
For even they who receive circumcision don't keep the Torah themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his mitzvot. His mitzvot are not grievous.
But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don't have this teaching, who don't know what some call 'the deep things of Hasatan,' to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you.