Mark 16 : 18

The Greek specifies ἐν ταῖς χερσίν ('in [their] hands') as the explicit means of taking up serpents, but neither the Peshitta nor the Vulgate render this prepositional phrase here; both present simply 'they shall take up serpents,' leaving the instrument implicit.

The Vulgate inserts a colon after tollent, segmenting the verse into discrete clauses; neither the Greek nor the Syriac mark this boundary with comparable punctuation in the source tokens.

The Greek single adjective θανάσιμον ('deadly') is matched by Latin mortiferum, but the Syriac uses a noun-genitive construction ܣܡܐ ܕܡܘܬܐ ('poison of death'), making explicit the substance the others leave to context.

The Greek employs the emphatic double negative οὐ μή ('certainly not') with the future indicative for strong denial; both the Syriac simple ܠܐ and the Latin non render only a single negation, flattening the emphatic Greek construction.

The Vulgate places a second colon after nocebit to close the conditional clause before the next promise; this clause-level punctuation is absent in the Greek and Syriac token streams.

All three attest 'hands' (χεῖρας / ܐܝܕܝܗܘܢ / manus), but the Syriac fronts the noun with a possessive suffix and conjunction ܘܐܝܕܝܗܘܢ ('and their hands') ahead of the prepositional phrase, whereas Greek and Latin place 'hands' after the object of laying-on.

Greek καλῶς ἕξουσιν ('they will be well,' lit. 'have well') and Latin bene habebunt preserve the idiomatic 'have well' construction; the Syriac collapses it into a single reflexive/passive verb ܘܢܬܚܠܡܘܢ ('and they shall be healed'), an idiomatic compression.