Hebrews 11:37
Authorized (King James) Version
37 they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
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Hebrews 11:37
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
37 They were stoned to death; they were sawn in two;[a] they were killed by the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, persecuted, tormented(A)—
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- 11.37 Other ancient authorities add they were tempted
Hebrews 11:37
English Standard Version
37 (A)They were stoned, they were sawn in two,[a] (B)they were killed with the sword. (C)They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated—
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- Hebrews 11:37 Some manuscripts add they were tempted
Hebrews 11:37
New American Standard Bible
37 They were (A)stoned, they were sawn in two, [a]they were tempted, they were (B)put to death with the sword; they went about (C)in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, (D)tormented
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- Hebrews 11:37 One early ms does not contain they were tempted
Hebrews 11:37
New English Translation
37 They were stoned, sawed apart,[a] murdered with the sword; they went about in sheepskins and goatskins; they were destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
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- Hebrews 11:37 tc The reading ἐπρίσθησαν (epristhēsan, “they were sawed apart”) is found in some significant witnesses (P46 [D* twice reads ἐπίρσθησαν, “they were burned”?] syp sa Orpt Eus). Other mss have ἐπειράσθησαν (epeirasthēsan, “they were tempted”), either before “sawed apart” ([א] L P [048] 33 81 326 1505 syh), after “sawed apart” (P13vid A D1 Ψ 1739 1881 M lat bo Orpt), or altogether in place of “sawed apart” (0150 vgmss Cl). Since the two words ἐπρίσθησαν and ἐπειράσθησαν are so much alike in sight and sound, and since the position of “they were tempted” varies in the mss, it seems best to say that ἐπειράσθησαν is an accidental transcriptional error of ἐπρίσθησαν or an intentional change to a more common word (the root of ἐπρίσθησαν [πρίζω, prizō] occurs only here in the NT, while the root of ἐπειράσθησαν [πειράζω, peirazō] occurs 38 times). The best reading here seems to be “sawed apart” without any addition before or after. (See TCGNT 603-4, for a discussion of emendations that scholars have proposed for this difficult problem.)
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