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2 Kings 6:25

King James Version (KJV)

And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

Translations

2 Kings 6:25 - Amplified Bible

And a great famine came to Samaria. They besieged it until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a kab of dove's dung [a wild vegetable] for five shekels of silver.

2 Kings 6:25 - American Standard Version

And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an asss head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of doves dung for five pieces of silver.

2 Kings 6:25 - Bible in Basic English

And they became very short of food in Samaria; for they kept it shut in till the price of an ass's head was eighty shekels of silver, and a small measure of doves' droppings was five shekels of silver.

2 Kings 6:25 - Darby Bible

And there was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until an ass`s head was worth eighty silver-pieces, and the fourth part of a cab of dove`s dung five silver-pieces.

2 Kings 6:25 - English Standard Version

And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver.

2 Kings 6:25 - King James Version

And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

2 Kings 6:25 - La Biblia de las Americas

Y hubo gran hambre en Samaria; y he aquì, la sitiaron, hasta que la cabeza de un asno se vendìa por ochenta siclos de plata, y la cuarta parte de un cab (Un cab equivale aprox. a dos litros) de estiércol de paloma por cinco siclos de plata.

2 Kings 6:25 - The Message

2 Kings 6:25 - New American Standard Bible

There was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty {shekels} of silver, and a fourth of a (I.e. One kab equals approx 2 qts) kab of dove's dung for five {shekels} of silver.

2 Kings 6:25 - Nueva Biblia Latinoamericana de Hoy

Y hubo gran hambre en Samaria. La sitiaron de tal modo que la cabeza de un asno se vendìa por ochenta siclos (912 gramos) de plata, y medio litro de estiércol de paloma por cinco siclos de plata.

2 Kings 6:25 - World English Bible

There was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until a donkey`s head was sold for eighty [pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove`s dung for five [pieces] of silver.

2 Kings 6:25 - Young's Living Translation

and there is a great famine in Samaria, and lo, they are laying siege to it, till the head of an ass is at eighty silverlings, and a forth of the cab of dovesdung at five silverlings.

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