Do not take their daughters for your sons, for their daughters will prostitute themselves with their own gods, and cause your sons to prostitute themselves with their gods.
Psalm 106:39 - Tree of Life Version So they defiled themselves by their deeds, and prostituted themselves by their practices. 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. |
Do not take their daughters for your sons, for their daughters will prostitute themselves with their own gods, and cause your sons to prostitute themselves with 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 walk in the statutes of your fathers, do not keep their ordinances, do not defile yourselves with their idols.
There you will remember your ways and all your deeds, by which you defiled yourselves. You will loathe yourselves for all your evil that you have done.
Say, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘City that spills blood in her midst and makes idols for herself that defile—her time has come!
“Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their way and by their deeds. Their way before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman in her niddah .
Do not rejoice, O Israel, do not celebrate like the peoples— for so you have gone whoring away from your God. You have loved a prostitute’s pay, on every grain-threshing-floor.
They are no longer to offer their sacrifices to the goat-demons after which they play the prostitute. This will be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.
It will be your own tzitzit—so whenever you look at them, you will remember all the mitzvot of Adonai and do them and not go spying out after your own hearts and your own eyes, prostituting yourselves.