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Polyglot Bible: Jonah: Jonah 4

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This is a scholarly biblical text presenting the final chapter of the Book of Jonah (chapter 4) in four parallel ancient versions: the King James Version (English), the Septuagint (ancient Greek translation), the Tanakh (original Hebrew), and the Vulgate (Latin translation by Jerome). The passage depicts Jonah's bitter anger after God spares Nineveh, his wish for death, and the famous episode of the plant (variously rendered as "gourd," *kolokynthē*, *qiqayon*, or "ivy/hedera") that grows overnight to shelter him and then withers, leaving him again despairing. God uses Jonah's disproportionate grief over the lost plant as a rhetorical pivot to rebuke his lack of compassion for Nineveh's 120,000 inhabitants. The text's distinctive feature is its synoptic, interlinear-style layout allowing direct comparison across the Hebrew original, two major ancient translations, and the KJV — a format typical of academic biblical studies, textual criticism, or comparative translation scholarship. Notably, the four versions show subtle but significant divergences: for instance, the Septuagint and Vulgate differ on the identity of the sheltering plant, and the divine name alternates between "LORD" (YHWH) and "God" (Elohim) across verses in ways visible only in the parallel presentation.

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