Verse 2

They have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, and they have mingled the holy seed with the peoples of the lands. Furthermore, the leaders and officials have been foremost in this unfaithfulness.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  For de har tatt sine døtre til ekte for sine sønner, og blandet den hellige ætt med disse folkene. Og lederne og de fremste i folket har vært de første til å begå dette sviket.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  For de har tatt av deres døtre til seg selv og sine sønner, slik at den hellige slekten har blandet seg med landenes folk. Til og med høvdingenes og ledernes hånd har vært den første i dette lovbruddet.

• Norsk King James

  For de har tatt døtre fra dem til sine sønner, og slik har det hellige folk blandet seg med folkene i disse landene; ja, prinsene og lederne har vært de mest ansvarlige for denne synden.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  For de har tatt døtrene deres til koner for seg selv og sine sønner, og den hellige slekt har blandet seg med landets folk. Lederne og styresmaktene har vært de første til å begå denne krenkelsen.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  For de har tatt noen av deres døtre som koner for seg selv og sine sønner, og dermed har det hellige avkommet blandet seg med folkene i landene. Og først og fremst har fyrstene og lederne vært innblandet i denne troløsheten."

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  For de har tatt døtrene deres som hustruer til seg selv og for sine sønner, så den hellige ætt har blandet seg med folkene i de landene. Og lederne og styresmennene har vært de første til å begå denne overtredelsen.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  For de har tatt deres døtre med seg og gitt sine sønner i ekteskap med dem, slik at den hellige ætt har blitt blandet med folkeslagene i disse landene; ja, de ledende herskerne og embetsmennene har vært hovedaktørene i denne overtredelsen.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  For de har tatt døtrene deres som hustruer til seg selv og for sine sønner, så den hellige ætt har blandet seg med folkene i de landene. Og lederne og styresmennene har vært de første til å begå denne overtredelsen.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  For de har tatt av deres døtre til seg selv og sine sønner, slik at den hellige ætten har blandet seg med landenes folkeslag. Og lederne og høvdingene har vært de første til å begå denne overtredelsen.

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  For de har tatt deres døtre til koner for seg selv og sine sønner, og den hellige ætten har blandet seg med folkene i landene omkring. Lederne og myndighetspersonene har vært de første til å begå denne overtredelsen.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Thi de have taget af deres Døttre for sig og for deres Sønner, og den hellige Sæd haver blandet sig med Folkene i Landene, og de Øverstes og Forstandernes Haand har været i denne Forgribelse den første.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  For de har tatt døtre fra disse folkene til seg selv og til sønnene sine, slik at den hellige ætten har blitt blandet med folkene i disse landene. Ja, fyrstene og lederne har vært de fremste i denne overtredelsen.

• KJV1611 - Moderne engelsk

  For they have taken some of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has mingled with the peoples of those lands. Indeed, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  De har tatt deres døtre til koner for seg selv og for sine sønner, så den hellige ætt har blandet seg med folkene i landene. Lederne og høvdingene har vært de første i denne overtredelsen.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  For de har tatt deres døtre til ekte for seg og sønnene sine, og den hellige ætt har vært blandet med landets folk, og det første til å gjøre slik var lederne og de fremtredende.'

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  For de har tatt deres døtre til koner for seg selv og sine sønner, slik at det hellige ætter er blandet med landenes folk; ja, lederne og høvdingene har vært de første i denne overtredelsen.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  For de har tatt deres døtre til koner for seg selv og sine sønner, slik at det hellige ættet har blitt blandet med landenes folk; og faktisk har lederne og høvdingene vært de første til å gjøre dette onde.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For they haue taken the doughters of the same, & their sonnes, and haue myxte the holy sede with ye nacions in the londes: and the hande of the rulers and lordes of councell hath bene principall in this trespace.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For they haue taken their daughters to theselues, and to their sonnes, and they haue mixed the holy seede with the people of the landes, and the hande of the princes and rulers hath bene chiefe in this trespasse.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For they haue taken the daughters of the same to them selues and to their sonnes, and the holy seede is mixed with the nations of the landes, & the hand of the princes and rulers hath ben principall in the trespasse.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of [those] lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands: yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  for they have taken of their daughters to them, and to their sons, and the holy seed have mingled themselves among the peoples of the lands, and the hand of the heads and of the seconds have been first in this trespass.'

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the peoples of the lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For they have taken their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the peoples of the lands; and in fact the captains and rulers have been the first to do this evil.

• World English Bible (2000)

  For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass."

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Indeed, they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has become intermingled with the local residents. Worse still, the leaders and the officials have been at the forefront of all of this unfaithfulness!”

Referenced Verses

• Exod 34:16 : 16 And when you take some of their daughters as wives for your sons, their daughters will lead your sons to prostitute themselves to their gods.
• Neh 13:23-24 : 23 Additionally, in those days I saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. 24 Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of other peoples, but they could not speak the language of Judah.
• 2 Cor 6:14 : 14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
• Exod 19:6 : 6 You will be for Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.
• Deut 7:6 : 6 For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be His treasured possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
• Deut 14:2 : 2 For you are a holy people set apart for the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be His treasured possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
• Ezra 10:18-44 : 18 Among the descendants of the priests, the following were found to have married foreign women: From the descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers, Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah. 19 They gave their hands in pledge to put away their wives, and for their guilt they offered a ram from the flock as a guilt offering. 20 From the descendants of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah. 21 From the descendants of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah. 22 From the descendants of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah. 23 Among the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer. 24 From the musicians: Eliashib. From the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri. 25 And from the Israelites: From the descendants of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malchijah, and Benaiah. 26 From the descendants of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah. 27 From the descendants of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza. 28 From the descendants of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai. 29 From the descendants of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Ramoth. 30 From the descendants of Pahath-Moab: Adna, Kelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh. 31 From the descendants of Harim: Eliezer, Ishijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon, 32 Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah. 33 From the descendants of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei. 34 From the descendants of Bani: Maadai, Amram, and Uel. 35 Benaiah, Bedeiah, Keluhi. 36 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib. 37 Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasai. 38 Bani, Binnui, and Shimei. 39 Shelemiah, Nathan, and Adaiah. 40 Maknadebai, Shashai, and Sarai. 41 Azarel, Shelemiah, and Shemariah. 42 Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph. 43 From the descendants of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jaddai, Joel, and Benaiah. 44 All these had married foreign women, and some of them had even fathered children by them.
• Ezra 10:2 : 2 Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, said to Ezra, "We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the peoples around us. But even now there is hope for Israel regarding this.
• Deut 7:1-4 : 1 When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of, and He drives out many nations before you—the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites—seven nations more numerous and stronger than you, 2 and when the LORD your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must devote them to complete destruction. Do not make a covenant with them or show them any mercy. 3 Do not intermarry with them: do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, 4 because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the LORD's anger will burn against you, and He will quickly destroy you.
• Isa 6:13 : 13 Yet a tenth will remain in the land, and it will once again be ravaged. Like a terebinth or an oak whose stump remains when it is felled, the holy seed is its stump.
• Mal 2:11 : 11 Judah has been unfaithful, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which He loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
• Mal 2:15 : 15 Did not God make them one, with a portion of His spirit in their union? And what was the one seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.
• 1 Cor 7:14 : 14 For the unbelieving husband is made holy through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy through her husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.
• Neh 13:28 : 28 Even one of the sons of Joiada, son of Eliashib the high priest, was a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite, so I drove him away from me.
• Gen 6:2 : 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humanity were beautiful, and they took wives for themselves from whomever they chose.
• Neh 13:3-4 : 3 When they heard the Law, they separated all those of foreign descent from Israel. 4 Before this occurred, Eliashib the priest, who had been assigned to the chambers of the house of our God, was closely associated with Tobiah.
• Neh 13:17 : 17 I reprimanded the nobles of Judah and said to them, "What is this wicked thing you are doing—profaning the Sabbath day?