2 Samuel 13:8 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁸ 3 For I shall not be able to bear my shame, and thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel: but rather speak to the king, and he will not deny me to thee.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was laid down. And she took flour, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house, and he was in bed. And she took dough and kneaded it and made cakes in his sight and baked them.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house; and he was laid down. And she took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.

Common English Bible

⁸ So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house where he was lying down. She took dough, kneaded it, made heart-shaped cakes in front of him, and then cooked them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And Tamar went into the house of her brother Amnon. But he was lying down. And taking flour, she mixed it. And dissolving it in his sight, she cooked little portions of food.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ And Thamar came to the house of Amnon her brother: but he was laid down. And she took meal and tempered it: and dissolving it in his sight she made little messes.

2 Samuel 13:8 Cross References

2 Samuel 13:7

2 She answered him: Do not so, my brother, do not force me: for no such thing must be done in Israel. Do not thou this folly.

2 Samuel 13:9

4 But he would not hearken to her prayers, but being stronger overpowered her and lay with her.

Deuteronomy 27:22

Now if thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to do and keep all his commandments, which I command thee this day, the Lord thy God will make thee higher than all the nations that are on the earth.

1 Samuel 28:24

But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him, and they said to him: Let this man return, and abide in his place, which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest he be an adversary to us, when we shall begin to fight: for how can he otherwise appease his master, but with our heads?