Friday 22 November 2013

Jonah 1:7-10: Translation and Comments

Jonah 1:7-10

 

7 And they said, each man to his neighbour, “Come and let us cast lots and let us know on account of whom this disaster has come on us.” And they cast lots and the lot fell to Jonah. 

8 And they said to him, “Please tell to us on whose account for whom this disaster has come on us? What is your occupation and from where do you come? What is your land and from where are your people?”

9 And he said to them, “I am a Hebrew and YHWH God of the heavens I fear, who made the sea and the dry land.”


10 And the men were afraid with a great fear and they said to him, “What is this you have done?” For the men knew that he was fleeing from before YHWH for he had told it to them.