Deuteronomy 17:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

If there is found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, a man or woman who has done wickedness in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant,

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    If a man or woman in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you is found to have committed an evil act in the sight of the LORD your God, violating His covenant,

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    If there be found in the midst of thee, within any of thy gates which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that doeth that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, in transgressing his covenant,

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    Yf there be founde amonge you in any of thi cities which the Lord thi God geueth the man or woman that hath wrought wekednesse in the sighte of the Lord thi God, that they haue gone beyonde his appoyntment,

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Yf there be founde amonge you (within eny of thy gates which the LORDE yi God shal geue ye) a man or woman, that worketh wickednesse in ye sighte of the LORDE thy God, so that he transgresseth his couenaute and goeth,

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    If there be founde among you in any of thy cities, which the Lorde thy God giueth thee, man or woman that hath wrought wickednes in the sight of the Lord thy God, in transgressing his couenant,

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    If there be founde among you within any of thy gates which the Lorde thy God geueth thee, man or woman that hath wrought wickednesse in the sight of the Lorde thy God, in transgressyng his couenaunt:

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    If there be found in the midst of you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, man or woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, in transgressing his covenant,

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `When there is found in thy midst, in one of thy cities which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, a man or a woman who doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah thy God by transgressing His covenant,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    If there be found in the midst of thee, within any of thy gates which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that doeth that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, in transgressing his covenant,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    If there be found in the midst of thee, within any of thy gates which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that doeth that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, in transgressing his covenant,

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    If there is any man or woman among you, in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, sinning against his agreement,

  • World English Bible (2000)

    If there be found in the midst of you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, man or woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, in transgressing his covenant,

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you– in one of your villages that the LORD your God is giving you– who sins before the Lord your God and breaks his covenant

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 13:6-9 : 6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers; 7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth; 8 You shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare him, neither shall you conceal him: 9 But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. 10 And you shall stone him with stones, that he die; because he has sought to push you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this among you. 12 If you shall hear in one of your cities, which the LORD your God has given you to dwell there, saying, 13 Certain men, the children of Belial, have gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known; 14 Then shall you inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done among you; 15 You shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. 16 And you shall gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shall burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every bit, for the LORD your God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again. 17 And there shall cling nothing of the cursed thing to your hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion upon you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers; 18 When you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do what is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
  • Deut 17:5 : 5 then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has committed this wicked thing, and shall stone them with stones until they die.
  • Josh 7:11 : 11 Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and deceived also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.
  • Josh 7:15 : 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.
  • Josh 23:16 : 16 When you have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land which he has given to you.
  • Judg 2:20 : 20 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because this people have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not listened to my voice;
  • 2 Kgs 18:12 : 12 because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded, and neither would they listen to them nor do them.
  • Hos 6:7 : 7 But like men they have transgressed the covenant: there they have dealt treacherously against me.
  • Hos 8:1 : 1 Set the trumpet to your mouth. He shall come like an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant and trespassed against my law.
  • Heb 8:9-9 : 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in my covenant, and I did not regard them, says the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
  • Lev 26:15 : 15 And if you shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhors my judgments, so that you will not do all my commandments, but that you break my covenant:
  • Lev 26:25 : 25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when you are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
  • Deut 4:23 : 23 Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make for yourselves a carved image, or the likeness of anything, which the LORD your God has forbidden you.
  • Jer 31:32 : 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them, says the LORD:
  • Ezek 16:38 : 38 And I will judge you, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give you blood in fury and jealousy.
  • Deut 29:18 : 18 Lest there should be among you a man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears bitter poison and wormwood;
  • Deut 29:25 : 25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:
  • Deut 31:20 : 20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, that flows with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.

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  • Deut 17:3-5
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    82%

    3and has gone and served other gods and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded,

    4and it is told to you, and you have heard of it and diligently inquired, and indeed it is true and certain that such an abomination has been committed in Israel,

    5then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has committed this wicked thing, and shall stone them with stones until they die.

  • Deut 13:10-14
    5 verses
    78%

    10And you shall stone him with stones, that he die; because he has sought to push you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

    11And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this among you.

    12If you shall hear in one of your cities, which the LORD your God has given you to dwell there, saying,

    13Certain men, the children of Belial, have gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known;

    14Then shall you inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done among you;

  • Deut 17:1
    77%

    1You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God any bull or sheep that has a blemish or any defect, for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.

  • Deut 29:17-18
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    17And you have seen their abominations, and their idols of wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)

    18Lest there should be among you a man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears bitter poison and wormwood;

  • Deut 13:6-7
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    6If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;

    7Namely, of the gods of the people which are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;

  • Josh 7:15
    75%

    15And 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.

  • Deut 25:16
    75%

    16For all who do such things, and all who act unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.

  • Deut 22:20-24
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    20But if this thing is true, and the evidence of virginity is not found for the young woman,

    21Then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones so that she dies, because she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house. So shall you put away the evil from among you.

    22If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; so you shall put away evil from Israel.

    23If a young woman who is a virgin is betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her,

    24Then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones so that they die; the young woman because she did not cry out, being in the city; and the man because he has humbled his neighbor's wife; so you shall put away the evil from among you.

  • Deut 18:12
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    12For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you.

  • Exod 34:15
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    15Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you, and you eat his sacrifice.

  • Num 5:12-13
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    12Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, If any man's wife goes astray and acts unfaithfully against him,

    13And a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected, though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, nor is she caught in the act;

  • Num 5:6
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    6Speak to the children of Israel, When a man or woman commits any sin that people commit by breaking faith with the LORD, and that person is guilty;

  • Deut 18:9-10
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    9When you come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

    10There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

  • Lev 18:27
    73%

    27For all these abominations have the men of the land done, who were before you, and the land is defiled;

  • Num 5:20
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    20But if you have gone aside to another instead of your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:

  • Deut 7:26
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    26Neither 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.

  • Deut 30:17
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    17But if your heart turns away, so that you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

  • Josh 23:12
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    12Otherwise, if you do at all turn back, and join to the remnant of these nations, even those that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you:

  • Mal 2:11
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    11Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

  • Deut 17:12
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    12The man who acts presumptuously and will not listen to the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or to the judge, that man shall die; so you shall put away the evil from Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
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    12For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

  • Ezek 22:11
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    11One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

  • 2 Kgs 17:17
    73%

    17They caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

  • Lev 17:8-9
    2 verses
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    8And you shall say to them, Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell among you, that offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,

    9And 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.

  • Deut 22:5
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    5A woman shall not wear what pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman's garment; for all who do so are an abomination to the LORD your God.

  • Deut 20:18
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    18That they teach you not to do according to all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so you would sin against the LORD your God.

  • Lev 6:2
    72%

    2If a person sins and commits a trespass against the LORD, and lies to his neighbor about something delivered to him to keep, or about a pledge, or about something taken away by violence, or has deceived his neighbor;

  • Ezek 18:11
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    11And does not do any of those duties, but has eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife,

  • 2 Chr 7:19
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    19But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods, and worship them;

  • Deut 17:7
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    7The hands of the witnesses shall be the first to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall put the evil away from among you.

  • Lev 18:29
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    29For whoever commits any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.

  • Deut 12:31
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    31You shall not do so to the LORD your God, for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they have even burned their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

  • Josh 23:16
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    16When you have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land which he has given to you.

  • Lev 18:20
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    20Moreover, you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her.

  • Deut 23:17
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    17There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.