Wisdom 18:12
Good News Translation
There were too many dead bodies to count. There were not enough people left to bury them all. In a single moment their dearest children died; all of them met death in the same way.

New Revised Standard Version
and they all together, by the one form of death, had corpses too many to count. For the living were not sufficient even to bury them, since in one instant their most valued children had been destroyed.

Contemporary English Version
In one brief moment, the dearest child in each family died, leaving not even enough people to bury the dead.

New American Bible
And all alike by one common form of death had countless dead; For the living were not even sufficient for the burial, since at a single instant their most valued offspring had been destroyed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So all alike had innumerable dead, with one kind of death. Neither were the living sufficient to bury them: for in one moment the noblest offspring of them was destroyed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

So all alike had innumerable dead, with one kind of death. Neither were the living sufficient to bury them: for in one moment the noblest offspring of them was destroyed.

Wisdom 18:10
But on the other side there sounded an ill according cry of the enemies, and a lamentable mourning was heard for the children that were bewailed.

Wisdom 18:11
And the servant suffered the same punishment as the master, and a common man suffered in like manner as the king.

Wisdom 18:13
For whereas they would not believe any thing before by reason of the enchantments, then first upon the destruction of the firstborn, they acknowledged the people to be of God.

Wisdom 18:14
For while all things were in quiet silence, and the night was in the midst of her course,

Context
Wisdom 18
11And the servant suffered the same punishment as the master, and a common man suffered in like manner as the king. 12So all alike had innumerable dead, with one kind of death. Neither were the living sufficient to bury them: for in one moment the noblest offspring of them was destroyed. 13For whereas they would not believe any thing before by reason of the enchantments, then first upon the destruction of the firstborn, they acknowledged the people to be of God.…
Cross References
Wisdom 18:10
But on the other side there sounded an ill according cry of the enemies, and a lamentable mourning was heard for the children that were bewailed.

Wisdom 18:11
And the servant suffered the same punishment as the master, and a common man suffered in like manner as the king.

Wisdom 18:13
For whereas they would not believe any thing before by reason of the enchantments, then first upon the destruction of the firstborn, they acknowledged the people to be of God.

Wisdom 18:14
For while all things were in quiet silence, and the night was in the midst of her course,



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 18:11
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