KJV King James Version
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
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Matthew 23:32
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.
WEB World English Bible
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
ASV American Standard Version
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and ye—ye fill up the measure of your fathers.
Surrounding context — Matthew 23
29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
33 [Ye] serpents, [ye] generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and [some] of them ye shall kill and crucify; and [some] of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute [them] from city to city:
35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
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Genesis 15:16But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites [is] not yet full.Numbers 32:14And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.1 Thessalonians 2:16Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.Zechariah 5:6-11And I said, What [is] it? And he said, This [is] an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This [is] their resemblance through all the earth.
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