KJV King James Version
The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: and these [cities] shall go into captivity.
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Ezekiel 30:17
The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: and these [cities] shall go into captivity.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The young men of On and Pi-beseth will fall by the sword, and those cities will go into captivity.
WEB World English Bible
The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword; and these cities shall go into captivity.
ASV American Standard Version
The young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword; and these cities shall go into captivity.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
The youths of Aven and Pi-Beseth by sword do fall, And these into captivity do go.
Surrounding context — Ezekiel 30
14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.
15 And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.
16 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph [shall have] distresses daily.
17 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: and these [cities] shall go into captivity.
18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
19 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.
20 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first [month], in the seventh [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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