And you will take wives from among their daughters for your sons, and their daughters who prostitute themselves to their gods will make your sons also prostitute themselves to their gods.
Psalm 106:39 - New Revised Standard Version Thus they became unclean by their acts, and prostituted themselves in their doings. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thus were they defiled with their own works, And went a whoring with their own inventions. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Thus were they defiled by their own works, and they played the harlot and practiced idolatry with their own deeds [of idolatrous rites]. American Standard Version (1901) Thus were they defiled with their works, And played the harlot in their doings. Common English Bible They made themselves unclean by what they did; they prostituted themselves by their actions. Catholic Public Domain Version And they became few, and they were afflicted by the tribulation of evils and of sorrow. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Then they were brought to be few: and they were afflicted through the trouble of evils and sorrow. |
And you will take wives from among their daughters for your sons, and their daughters who prostitute themselves to their gods will make your sons also prostitute themselves to their gods.
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.
I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not follow the statutes of your parents, nor observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
There you shall remember your ways and all the deeds by which you have polluted yourselves; and you shall loathe yourselves for all the evils that you have committed.
You shall say, Thus says the Lord God: A city! Shedding blood within itself; its time has come; making its idols, defiling itself.
Mortal, when the house of Israel lived on their own soil, they defiled it with their ways and their deeds; their conduct in my sight was like the uncleanness of a woman in her menstrual period.
Do not rejoice, O Israel! Do not exult as other nations do; for you have played the whore, departing from your God. You have loved a prostitute's pay on all threshing floors.
so that they may no longer offer their sacrifices for goat-demons, to whom they prostitute themselves. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.
You have the fringe so that, when you see it, you will remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them, and not follow the lust of your own heart and your own eyes.