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Douay-Rheims
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He answered: I yield up my right of next akin: for I must not cut off the posterity of my own family. Do thou make use of my privilege, which I profess I do willingly forego.
King James
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And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it.
Louis Second
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Et celui qui avait le droit de rachat répondit: Je ne puis pas racheter pour mon compte, crainte de détruire mon héritage; prends pour toi mon droit de rachat, car je ne puis pas racheter
Martin Luther
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Da sprach er: Ich mag es nicht beerben, daß ich nicht vielleicht mein Erbteil verderbe. Beerbe du, was ich beerben soll; denn ich mag es nicht beerben.
Vulgate
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qui respondit cedo iure propinquitatis neque enim posteritatem familiae meae delere debeo tu meo utere privilegio quo me libenter carere profiteor

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary


qui : quae : que : quod : which, what, that.
qui : (masc. pl. nom.) Let THOSE (men) WHO have eyes to see..
qui : (masc. neut. nom.) (the prince) WHO loved a milkmaid.
qui : (question) how? in what way? / somehow / wherewith.
cedo : cessi : cessum : to grant, yield/ withdraw.
cedo : (+ dat.) give ground to, submit to, be inferior to.
cedo : to go, proceed /turn out, happen/go away, withdraw.
enim : in fact, truly, indeed.
enim : for, in fact, truly (may often be omitted).
debeo : to owe, to be morally bound to, to be bound by.
tu : you.
quo : to which place, to what place, whither, where.
quo : (neut. sing. abl.) (the eagerness) THROUGH WHICH he died.
quo : (masc. sing. abl.) (the money) BY means of WHICH he lived.
me : (abl.) me /you'll do fine with ME, baby.
me : (acc.) me /that old black magic has ME in its spell.
libenter : willingly, with pleasure.
profiteor : to confess (one's sins), to take a monastic oath.
profiteor : to declare publicly, profess.
profiteor : to make a public statement / to declare oneself.
profiteor : to acknowledge, confess / offer, promise.