Isaiah 7:16
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For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
In other translations
For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
Hebrew words
כִּיkiforH3588בְּטֶרֶםbeterem<in> beforeH2962יֵדַעyeda'he will knowH3045הַנַּעַרhana'arthe ladH5288מָאֹסma'osto rejectH3988בָּרָעbara'<in> the evilH7451וּבָחֹרuvachorand to chooseH977בַּטּוֹבbatov<in> the goodH2896תֵּעָזֵבte'azevit will be forsakenH5800הָאֲדָמָהha'adamahthe landH127אֲשֶׁר'asherwhichH834אַתָּה'atahyouH859קָץkatz[are] feeling dreadH6973מִפְּנֵיmipeneiof <the face of>H6440שְׁנֵיshenei[the] twoH8147מְלָכֶיהָ׃melakheihakings itsH4428
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- Deuteronomy 1:39Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.
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- Jonah 4:11And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”
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