King James Version
Read in contextBut as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
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But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water; and he cried, and said, Alas, my master! for it was borrowed.
But as one was felling a beam, the axe-head fell into the water; and he cried, and said, Alas, my master! for it was borrowed.
and it cometh to pass, the one is felling the beam, and the iron hath fallen into the water, and he crieth and saith, `Alas! my lord, and it asked!'
As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axe head fell into the water. “Oh, my master,” he cried out, “it was borrowed!”