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“Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers! How can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgment of hell?
You serpents, you spawn of vipers, how can you escape the penalty of hell?
You serpents! You spawn of vipers! How can you escape the penalty to be suffered in hell (Gehenna)?
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
“Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape being condemned to hell?
You snakes! You children of snakes! How will you be able to escape the judgment of hell?
“You snakes! Sons of snakes! How can you escape being condemned to Gei-Hinnom?
You are nothing but snakes and the children of snakes! How can you escape going to hell?
Serpents, offspring of vipers, how should ye escape the judgment of hell?
Snakes, brood of vipers, how may you escape from the condemnation of Gehenna?
You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell?
“You are snakes! You are from a family of poisonous snakes! You will not escape God. You will all be judged guilty and go to hell!
You are like a family of dangerous snakes! You will not be able to run away. God will surely punish you, and he will send you to hell.
You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape being condemned to hell?
You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?
You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?
“You ·are snakes [serpents]! A ·family of poisonous snakes [T brood/offspring of vipers]! How are you going to escape ·God’s judgment [the sentence/judgment/damnation of hell/Gehenna; 5:22]?
O serpents, the generation of vipers, how should ye escape the damnation of hell!
“You snakes! You poisonous snakes! How can you escape being condemned to hell?
You snakes and children of snakes! How do you expect to escape from being condemned to hell?
“Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape being condemned to hell?
“You are snakes! A family of poisonous snakes! You will not escape God. You will all be judged guilty and be sent to hell!
You snakes, you children of serpents! How can you escape being condemned to hell?
“What miserable frauds you are, you scribes and Pharisees! You build tombs for the prophets, and decorate monuments for good men of the past, and then say, ‘If we had lived in the times of our ancestors we should never have joined in the killing of the prophets.’ Yes, ‘your ancestors’—that shows you to be sons indeed of those who murdered the prophets. Go ahead then, and finish off what your ancestors tried to do! You serpents, you viper’s brood, how do you think you are going to avoid being condemned to the rubbish-heap? Listen to this: I am sending you prophets and wise and learned men; and some of these you will kill and crucify, others you will flog in your synagogues and hunt from town to town. So that on your hands is all the innocent blood spilt on this earth, from the blood of Abel the good to the blood of Zachariah, Barachiah’s son, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. Yes, I tell you that all this will be laid at the doors of this generation.
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the judgment of hell?
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell?
Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How will you escape from the condemnation to hell?
Snakes! Sons of vipers! How shall you escape the judgment of hell?
“Snakes! Cold-blooded 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 serpents! You generation of vipers! How can you escape the judgment of hell?
You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape from · being condemned to · hell?
“You snakes! You poisonous snakes! How can you escape being condemned to hell?
You serpents, you brood of vipers, how can you flee from the judgment of Gehenna?
You snakes, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell?
You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell?
“You snakes! You brood of vipers! How can you escape being condemned to Gehenna?
“You are snakes! A family of poisonous snakes! How are you going to escape God’s judgment?
You snakes, you offspring of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
“You nest of poisonous snakes! How will you escape from being sentenced to hell?
“You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
‘You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?
You snakes! You family of snakes! How can you be kept from hell?
Snakes! Sons of vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell?
Serpents and offspring of vipers, how can you escape the judgment of hell?
You snakes, you brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to hell?
You snakes, you brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to hell?
You snakes, you brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to hell?
You snakes, you brood of vipers! How can you escape the judgment of hell?
You snakes, you nest of vipers, how can you escape the judgment of Gehenna?”
Snakes, you banim of nachashim, how can you escape the Yom HaDin of Gehinnom?
“O serpents! The generation of vipers! How shall you escape the damnation of Hell!
You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?
You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?
O snakes, you brood of vipers! How will you escape the condemnation of Gehenna?
You are children of vipers, you belly-dragging snakes. You won’t escape the judgment of hell.
You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?
You snakes - a whole family of snakes! You cannot get away! You will be judged and sent to hell.
Ye adders, and adders' brood [Ye serpents, fruits of adders], how shall ye flee from the doom of hell?
`Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?
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