No man can enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house. |
No one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house. |
“But no one can enter the strong man’s house and plunder his property unless he first binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house. |
In fact, no one can enter a strong man’s house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can rob his house. |
But no one can go into a strong man’s house and ransack his household good right and left and seize them as plunder unless he first binds the strong man; then indeed he may [thoroughly] plunder his house. |
But one is able, having entered the house of the strong man, thoroughly to ransack his equipment, unless first he binds the strong man, and then he will thoroughly plunder his house. |
No one can break into a strong man’s house and steal his property, without first tying up the strong man hand and foot. But if he did that, he could ransack the whole house. |
But no one can get into a giant’s house and carry off his goods, unless he first binds the giant; after that he can make a clean sweep of his house. |
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