The well, which the princes digged, Which the nobles of the people delved, With the sceptre, and with their staves. And from the wilderness they journeyed to Mattanah;

The fountain made by the chiefs, made deep by the great ones of the people, with the law-givers' rod, and with their sticks. Then from the waste land they went on to Mattanah:

οι αρχοντες εσκαψαν το φρεαρ, οι ευγενεις του λαου εσκαψαν, δια προσταγης του νομοθετου, με τας ραβδους αυτων. Και απο της ερημου ηλθον εις Ματτανα,

The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah: