“And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.”
King James Version (KJV)
1:12 Your burden - The trouble of ruling and managing so perverse a people. Your strife - Your contentions among yourselves, for the determnination whereof the elders were appointed.
1:15 Officers - Inferior officers, that were to attend upon the superior magistrates, and to execute their decrees.
1:16 The stranger - That converseth or dealeth with himn. To Such God would have justice equally adtninistred as to his own people, partly for the honour of religion, and partly for the interest which every man hath in matters of common right.
And ye answered me, and saide, The thing which thou hast spoken, is good for vs to doe.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
"You answered me and said, 'The thing which you have said to do is good.'
- New American Standard Version (1995)
And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good `for us' to do.
- American Standard Version (1901)
And you made answer and said to me, It is good for us to do as you say.
- Basic English Bible
And ye answered me, and said, The thing that thou hast spoken is good [for us] to do.
- Darby Bible
And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.
- Webster's Bible
You answered me, and said, "The thing which you have spoken is good [for us] to do."
- World English Bible
and ye answer me and say, Good [is] the thing which thou hast spoken -- to do.
- Youngs Literal Bible
And ye answered me, and said: 'The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.'
- Jewish Publication Society Bible