Amos 6:10

KJV1611 – Modern English

And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he who burns him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say to him that is by the sides of the house, Is there anyone with you? And he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold your tongue: for we must not mention the name of the LORD.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    And when a relative or the one who burns the bodies removes them from the house and says to someone in the inner recesses of the house, 'Are there any more with you?' and he answers, 'No,' then he will say, 'Hush! We must not mention the name of the LORD.'

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the ne of the LORD.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And when a man's uncle{H1730} shall take him up,{H5375} even he that burneth{H5635} him, to bring out{H3318} the bones{H6106} out of the house,{H1004} and shall say{H559} unto him that is in the innermost parts{H3411} of the house,{H1004} Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say,{H559} No;{H657} then shall he say,{H559} Hold thy peace;{H2013} for we may not make mention{H2142} of the name{H8034} of Jehovah.{H3068}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And a man's uncle{H1730} shall take him up{H5375}{(H8804)}, and he that burneth{H5635}{(H8764)} him, to bring out{H3318}{(H8687)} the bones{H6106} out of the house{H1004}, and shall say{H559}{(H8804)} unto him that is by the sides{H3411} of the house{H1004}, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say{H559}{(H8804)}, No{H657}. Then shall he say{H559}{(H8804)}, Hold thy tongue{H2013}{(H8761)}: for we may not make mention{H2142}{(H8687)} of the name{H8034} of the LORD{H3068}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    So their nexte kyn?folckes and the deed buriers shall take them, and cary awaye their bones, and saye vnto him, that is in the ynnermer house: is there yet eny mo by ye? And he shal answere: they are all gone, holde thy tunge (shall he saye) for they wolde not remembre the name of the LORDE.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And his vncle shall take him vp & burne him to cary out the bones out of the house, and shal say vnto him, that is by ye sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? And he shal say, None. Then shal he say, Holde thy tongue: for we may not remember the Name of the Lord.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And his vncle shall take him vp, and burne him, to cary out the bones out of the house, & shall say vnto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? And he shal say, None. Then shal he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not remember the name of the Lorde.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that [is] by the sides of the house, [Is there] yet [any] with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    "When a man's relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, 'Is there yet any with you?' And he says, 'No;' then he will say, 'Hush! Indeed we must not mention the name of Yahweh.'

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And lifted him up hath his loved one, even his burner, To bring forth the bones from the house, And he said to him who `is' in the sides of the house, `Is there yet with thee?' And he said, `None,' then he said, `Hush! Save to make mention of the name of Jehovah.'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And when a man's uncle shall take him up, even he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is in the innermost parts of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No; then shall he say, Hold thy peace; for we may not make mention of the name of Jehovah.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And when a man's uncle shall take him up, even he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is in the innermost parts of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No; then shall he say, Hold thy peace; for we may not make mention of the name of Jehovah.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And when a man's relation, even the one who is responsible for burning his body, lifting him up to take his bones out of the house, says to him who is in the inmost part of the house, Is there still anyone with you? and he says, No; then he will say, Keep quiet, for the name of the Lord may not be named.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    "When a man's relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, 'Is there yet any with you?' And he says, 'No;' then he will say, 'Hush! Indeed we must not mention the name of Yahweh.'

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    When their close relatives, the ones who will burn the corpses, pick up their bodies to remove the bones from the house, they will say to anyone who is in the inner rooms of the house,“Is anyone else with you?” He will respond,“No one.” Then he will say,“Hush! Don’t invoke the LORD’s name!”

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 31:12 : 12 all the valiant men arose and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burned them there.
  • Amos 8:3 : 3 And the songs of the temple shall be wailings in that day, declares the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them out in silence.
  • Amos 5:13 : 13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
  • Jer 44:26 : 26 Therefore hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, says the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD lives.
  • Ezek 20:39 : 39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord GOD; Go, serve every one his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me: but pollute my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.
  • Ezek 24:21 : 21 Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and the delight your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left shall fall by the sword.
  • Num 17:12 : 12 And the children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.
  • 2 Kgs 6:33 : 33 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down to him: and he said, Behold, this evil is from the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?
  • 2 Kgs 23:16 : 16 As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs that were there on the mountain, and sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
  • Jer 16:6 : 6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, nor shall anyone mourn for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, they shall die.

  • 11 For behold, the LORD commands, and He will strike the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

  • Lev 14:44-47
    4 verses
    71%

    44 Then the priest shall come and look, and indeed if the plague has spread in the house, it is an invasive leprosy in the house: it is unclean.

    45 And he shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the mortar of the house; and he shall carry them outside the city to an unclean place.

    46 Moreover he that goes into the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until evening.

    47 And he that lies in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eats in the house shall wash his clothes.

  • 16 As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs that were there on the mountain, and sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

  • 20 And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.

  • 18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they left his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.

  • 10 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.

  • 16 And whoever touches someone who is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

  • 46 In one house it shall be eaten; you shall not carry any of the flesh outside the house, nor shall you break one of its bones.

  • 6 And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons, 'Do not uncover your heads nor tear your clothes, lest you die and wrath come upon all the people. But let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, mourn the burning which the Lord has kindled.

  • Lev 6:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

    10 The priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen trousers shall he put upon his body, and take up the ashes which the fire has consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.

    11 And he shall take off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.

  • 26 Neither shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you become a cursed thing like it: but you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

  • 69%

    14 And they shall appoint men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury the travelers that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.

    15 And the travelers that pass through the land, when anyone sees a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamongog.

  • 11 He who touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.

  • Jer 16:5-7
    3 verses
    69%

    5 For thus says the LORD, Do not enter the house of mourning, nor go to lament or bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.

    6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, nor shall anyone mourn for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.

    7 Nor shall anyone break bread in mourning for them, to comfort them for the dead; nor shall anyone give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or their mother.

  • Lev 14:35-36
    2 verses
    68%

    35 And he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seems to me there is a plague in the house:

    36 Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes in to see the plague, that all that is in the house may not become unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house:

  • 8 And at this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this house?

  • 5 And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones all around your altars.

  • 41 And he shall cause the house to be scraped all around, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off outside the city into an unclean place:

  • 4 I will bring it forth, says the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, with its timber and its stones.

  • Num 19:13-14
    2 verses
    68%

    13 Whoever touches the dead body of any man who is dead, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of purification has not been sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still upon him.

    14 This is the law when a man dies in a tent: all who come into the tent, and all who are in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

  • 6 Seek the LORD, and you shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.

  • 4 Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; from it a fire shall come forth into all the house of Israel.

  • 19 He shall neither have son nor descendant among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

  • 9 And does not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, to offer it to the LORD; that man shall be cut off from among his people.

  • 22 Speak, Thus says the LORD, 'Even the carcasses of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester, and no one shall gather them.'

  • 1 At that time, says the LORD, they will bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of its princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:

  • 2 Sam 14:6-7
    2 verses
    67%

    6 And your maidservant had two sons, and the two fought together in the field, and there was none to separate them, but one struck the other, and killed him.

    7 And, behold, the whole family has risen against your maidservant, and they said, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall extinguish my last remaining ember, and shall not leave to my husband either name or remnant on the earth.

  • 6 All the days that he separates himself to the LORD he shall not go near a dead body.

  • 33 And any of yours whom I do not cut off from my altar shall bring sorrow to your eyes and grief to your heart: and all the increase of your house shall die in the prime of their life.

  • 12 Even the whole bull shall he carry outside the camp to a clean place where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire; where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned.

  • 9 In my ears said the LORD of hosts, Truly many houses shall be desolate, even great and beautiful, without inhabitant.

  • 11 Concerning the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear the word of the LORD;

  • 4 And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel, the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, 'Come near, carry your brothers away from the sanctuary out of the camp.'

  • 6 Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that this place shall no longer be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.

  • 10 And it shall come to pass, when you show this people all these words, and they say to you, Why has the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?

  • 4 And the posts of the door were shaken at the voice of the one who called, and the house was filled with smoke.

  • 15 And it shall be, that he who is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he has: because he has transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he has done foolishness in Israel.

  • 18 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!

  • 12 The LORD will cut off the man who does this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offers an offering to the LORD of hosts.