Parallel Translations
Christian Standard Bible®
Fill up, then, the measure of your ancestors’ sins!
King James Version (1611)
Fil ye vp then the measure of your fathers.
King James Version
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
English Standard Version
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
New American Standard Bible
"Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers.
New Century Version
And you will complete the sin that your ancestors started.
Amplified Bible
"Fill up, then, the [allotted] measure of the guilt of your fathers' sins.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers.
Legacy Standard Bible
Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers.
Berean Standard Bible
Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.
Contemporary English Version
So keep on doing everything they did.
Complete Jewish Bible
Go ahead then, finish what your fathers started!
Darby Translation
and *ye*, fill ye up the measure of your fathers.
Easy-to-Read Version
And you will finish the sin that your ancestors started!
Geneva Bible (1587)
Fulfill ye also ye measure of your fathers.
George Lamsa Translation
You also fill up the measure of your fathers.
Good News Translation
Go on, then, and finish up what your ancestors started!
Lexham English Bible
And you—fill up the measure of your fathers!
Literal Translation
And you fill up the measure of your fathers.
American Standard Version
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
Bible in Basic English
Make full, then, the measure of your fathers.
Hebrew Names Version
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
International Standard Version Then finish what your ancestors started!Fill up the measure of your ancestors">[fn]Genesis 15:16;
1 Thessalonians 2:16;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And you also,-complete the measure of your fathers.
Murdock Translation
And as for you, fill ye up the measure of your fathers.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Fulfyll ye lykewyse, the measure of your fathers.
English Revised Version
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
World English Bible
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye brood of vipers,
Weymouth's New Testament
Fill up the measure of your forefathers' guilt.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And fulfille ye the mesure of youre fadris.
Update Bible Version
You fill up then the measure of your fathers.
Webster's Bible Translation
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
New English Translation
Fill up then the measure of your ancestors!
New King James Version
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers' guilt.
New Living Translation
Go ahead and finish what your ancestors started.
New Life Bible
You might as well finish what your early fathers did.
New Revised Standard
Fill up, then, the measure of your ancestors.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, ye, fill ye up the measure of your fathers!
Douay-Rheims Bible
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
Revised Standard Version
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Fulfill ye lyke wyse the measure of youre fathers.
Young's Literal Translation
and ye -- ye fill up the measure of your fathers.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Go to, fulfyll ye also the measure of youre fathers.
Mace New Testament (1729)
children that can't fail to fill up the measure of your fathers iniquities.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Just keep on doin' the same things they did and actin' the way they acted.
Contextual Overview
13 "I've had it with you! You're hopeless, you religion scholars, you Pharisees! Frauds! Your lives are roadblocks to God's kingdom. You refuse to enter, and won't let anyone else in either. "You're hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds! You go halfway around the world to make a convert, but once you get him you make him into a replica of yourselves, double-damned. "You're hopeless! What arrogant stupidity! You say, ‘If someone makes a promise with his fingers crossed, that's nothing; but if he swears with his hand on the Bible, that's serious.' What ignorance! Does the leather on the Bible carry more weight than the skin on your hands? And what about this piece of trivia: ‘If you shake hands on a promise, that's nothing; but if you raise your hand that God is your witness, that's serious'? What ridiculous hairsplitting! What difference does it make whether you shake hands or raise hands? A promise is a promise. What difference does it make if you make your promise inside or outside a house of worship? A promise is a promise. God is present, watching and holding you to account regardless. "You're hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds! You keep meticulous account books, tithing on every nickel and dime you get, but on the meat of God's Law, things like fairness and compassion and commitment—the absolute basics!—you carelessly take it or leave it. Careful bookkeeping is commendable, but the basics are required. Do you have any idea how silly you look, writing a life story that's wrong from start to finish, nitpicking over commas and semicolons? "You're hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds! You burnish the surface of your cups and bowls so they sparkle in the sun, while the insides are maggoty with your greed and gluttony. Stupid Pharisee! Scour the insides, and then the gleaming surface will mean something. "You're hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds! You're like manicured grave plots, grass clipped and the flowers bright, but six feet down it's all rotting bones and worm-eaten flesh. People look at you and think you're saints, but beneath the skin you're total frauds. "You're hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds! You build granite tombs for your prophets and marble monuments for your saints. And you say that if you had lived in the days of your ancestors, no blood would have been on your hands. You protest too much! You're cut from the same cloth as those murderers, and daily add to the death count. "Snakes! Reptilian sneaks! Do you think you can worm your way out of this? Never have to pay the piper? It's on account of people like you that I send prophets and wise guides and scholars generation after generation—and generation after generation you treat them like dirt, greeting them with lynch mobs, hounding them with abuse. "You can't squirm out of this: Every drop of righteous blood ever spilled on this earth, beginning with the blood of that good man Abel right down to the blood of Zechariah, Barachiah's son, whom you murdered at his prayers, is on your head. All this, I'm telling you, is coming down on you, on your generation. "Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Murderer of prophets! Killer of the ones who brought you God's news! How often I've ached to embrace your children, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you wouldn't let me. And now you're so desolate, nothing but a ghost town. What is there left to say? Only this: I'm out of here soon. The next time you see me you'll say, ‘Oh, God has blessed him! He's come, bringing God's rule!'" 14Religious Fashion Shows Now Jesus turned to address his disciples, along with the crowd that had gathered with them. "The religion scholars and Pharisees are competent teachers in God's Law. You won't go wrong in following their teachings on Moses. But be careful about following them. They talk a good line, but they don't live it. They don't take it into their hearts and live it out in their behavior. It's all spit-and-polish veneer. "Instead of giving you God's Law as food and drink by which you can banquet on God, they package it in bundles of rules, loading you down like pack animals. They seem to take pleasure in watching you stagger under these loads, and wouldn't think of lifting a finger to help. Their lives are perpetual fashion shows, embroidered prayer shawls one day and flowery prayers the next. They love to sit at the head table at church dinners, basking in the most prominent positions, preening in the radiance of public flattery, receiving honorary degrees, and getting called ‘Doctor' and ‘Reverend.' "Don't let people do that to you, put you on a pedestal like that. You all have a single Teacher, and you are all classmates. Don't set people up as experts over your life, letting them tell you what to do. Save that authority for God; let him tell you what to do. No one else should carry the title of ‘Father'; you have only one Father, and he's in heaven. And don't let people maneuver you into taking charge of them. There is only one Life-Leader for you and them—Christ. "Do you want to stand out? Then step down. Be a servant. If you puff yourself up, you'll get the wind knocked out of you. But if you're content to simply be yourself, your life will count for plenty. "I've had it with you! You're hopeless, you religion scholars, you Pharisees! Frauds! Your lives are roadblocks to God's kingdom. You refuse to enter, and won't let anyone else in either. 15 "You're hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds! You go halfway around the world to make a convert, but once you get him you make him into a replica of yourselves, double-damned. 16"You're hopeless! What arrogant stupidity! You say, ‘If someone makes a promise with his fingers crossed, that's nothing; but if he swears with his hand on the Bible, that's serious.' What ignorance! Does the leather on the Bible carry more weight than the skin on your hands? And what about this piece of trivia: ‘If you shake hands on a promise, that's nothing; but if you raise your hand that God is your witness, that's serious'? What ridiculous hairsplitting! What difference does it make whether you shake hands or raise hands? A promise is a promise. What difference does it make if you make your promise inside or outside a house of worship? A promise is a promise. God is present, watching and holding you to account regardless. 23"You're hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds! You keep meticulous account books, tithing on every nickel and dime you get, but on the meat of God's Law, things like fairness and compassion and commitment—the absolute basics!—you carelessly take it or leave it. Careful bookkeeping is commendable, but the basics are required. Do you have any idea how silly you look, writing a life story that's wrong from start to finish, nitpicking over commas and semicolons? 25"You're hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds! You burnish the surface of your cups and bowls so they sparkle in the sun, while the insides are maggoty with your greed and gluttony. Stupid Pharisee! Scour the insides, and then the gleaming surface will mean something. 27"You're hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds! You're like manicured grave plots, grass clipped and the flowers bright, but six feet down it's all rotting bones and worm-eaten flesh. People look at you and think you're saints, but beneath the skin you're total frauds. 29"You're hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds! You build granite tombs for your prophets and marble monuments for your saints. And you say that if you had lived in the days of your ancestors, no blood would have been on your hands. You protest too much! You're cut from the same cloth as those murderers, and daily add to the death count. 33"Snakes! Reptilian sneaks! Do you think you can worm your way out of this? Never have to pay the piper? It's on account of people like you that I send prophets and wise guides and scholars generation after generation—and generation after generation you treat them like dirt, greeting them with lynch mobs, hounding them with abuse.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the measure: Genesis 15:16, Numbers 32:14, Zechariah 5:6-11
Reciprocal: Judges 2:19 - more 2 Kings 21:20 - as his father 2 Chronicles 28:13 - add more Ezra 10:10 - to increase Psalms 69:27 - Add Psalms 79:8 - former iniquities Psalms 94:21 - condemn Psalms 106:6 - General Proverbs 30:15 - The horseleach Isaiah 59:12 - our transgressions Isaiah 65:3 - A people Isaiah 65:7 - therefore Jeremiah 7:26 - they did Jeremiah 32:18 - recompensest Lamentations 5:7 - fathers Ezekiel 18:14 - that seeth Ezekiel 20:30 - Are ye Ezekiel 22:4 - and thou hast Daniel 8:23 - when Daniel 9:16 - for the Hosea 10:9 - did Amos 4:4 - Come Zechariah 5:8 - This Matthew 12:45 - Even 1 Thessalonians 2:16 - to fill Hebrews 6:6 - they crucify Revelation 14:15 - ripe
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Of their sins; for there were bounds and limits set how far they should proceed, and no further; as yet they had not got to the end of their iniquity: their fathers had gone great lengths in sin, but their iniquity was not yet full, as is said of the Amorites, Genesis 15:16 these their sons were to fill it up. They had shed the blood of many of the prophets; and indeed there were none of them but they had persecuted and abused, in one shape or another: some they entreated shamefully, others they beat: some they stoned, and others they put to death with the sword, or otherwise; and now their children were about to fill the measure brimful, by crucifying the Son of God, which they were at this time meditating and contriving; and by persecuting and slaying his apostles, and so would bring upon them the vengeance of God. The Jews well enough understood these words, which were spoken to them in an ironical way, and expressing what they were about, and what they would hereafter do, and what would be the issue and consequence of it: they have a saying o, that
"the holy blessed God does not take vengeance on a man,
×¢× ×©×ª×ª××× ×¡×ת×, "until his measure is filled up"; according to Job 20:22.''
Which the Chaldee paraphrase renders,
"when his measure is filled up, then shall he take vengeance on him;''
and that this is Christ's sense, appears from what follows.
o T. Bab. Sota, fol. 9. 1.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Fill ye up, then ... - This is a prediction of what they were about to do. He would have them act out their true spirit, and show what they were, and evince to all that they had the spirit of their fathers, Compare the notes at John 13:27. This was done be putting him to death, and persecuting the apostles.
The measure - The full amount, so as to make it complete. By your slaying me, fill up what is lacking of the iniquity of your fathers until the measure is full; until the national iniquity is complete; until as much has been committed as God can possibly bear, and then shall come upon you all this blood, and you shall be destroyed, Matthew 23:34-35.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 32. Fill ye up then — Notwithstanding the profession you make, ye will fill up the measure of your fathers-will continue to walk in their way, accomplish the fulness of every evil purpose by murdering me; and then, when the measure of your iniquity is full, vengeance shall come upon you to the uttermost, as it did on your rebellious ancestors. The 31st verse should be read in a parenthesis, and then the 32d will appear to be, what it is, an Inference from the 30th.
Ye will fill up, or fill ye up - ÏληÏÏÏαÏε but it is manifest that the imperative is put here for the future, a thing quite consistent with the Hebrew idiom, and frequent in the Scriptures. So John 2:19, Destroy this temple, &c., i.e. Ye will destroy or pull down this temple, and I will rebuild it in three days-Ye will crucify me, and I will rise again the third day. Two good MSS. have the word in the future tense: and my old MS. Bible has it in the present-Ge (ye) fulfillen the mesure of youre (your) fadris.
