Leviticus 20:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְשַׂמְתִּ֨י אֲנִ֧י אֶת־פָּנַ֛י בָּאִ֥ישׁ הַה֖וּא וּבְמִשְׁפַּחְתּ֑וֹ וְהִכְרַתִּ֨י אֹת֜וֹ וְאֵ֣ת ׀ כָּל־הַזֹּנִ֣ים אַחֲרָ֗יו לִזְנ֛וֹת אַחֲרֵ֥י הַמֹּ֖לֶךְ מִקֶּ֥רֶב עַמָּֽם׃

Transliteration

wᵊ-śamtî ʾănî ʾet-pānay in-hā-ʾîš ha-hûʾ and-in-mišpaḥtô wᵊ-hikrattî ʾōtô and-ʾēt all-ha-zōnîm after-him to-liznôt after ha-mōlek from-midst ʿammām

Grammar Details

• *wᵊ-śamtî*: conjunction + perfect, 1st singular - and I will set
• *ʾănî*: 1st singular personal pronoun - I
• *ʾet*-*pānay*: direct object marker + noun, masculine plural with 1st singular suffix - my face
• *bā-ʾîš*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - against the man
• *ha-hûʾ*: definite article + demonstrative pronoun - that
• *û-bᵊ-mišpaḥtô*: conjunction + preposition + noun, feminine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - and against his family
• *wᵊ-hikrattî*: conjunction + perfect, 1st singular - and I will cut off
• *ʾōtô*: direct object marker + 3rd masculine singular suffix - him
• *wᵊ-ʾēt*: conjunction + direct object marker
• *kol*-*ha-zōnîm*: construct + definite article + participle, masculine plural - all those committing harlotry
• *ʾaḥărâw*: preposition with 3rd masculine singular suffix - after him
• *li-znôt*: preposition + infinitive construct - to commit harlotry
• *ʾaḥărê*: preposition - after
• *ha-mōlek*: definite article + proper noun - Molech
• *mi-qereb*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - from midst of
• *ʿammām*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their people

Word Meanings

• *śamtî* *ʾet*-*pānay*: set my face against/direct my attention against
• *mišpaḥtô*: his family/his clan/his relatives
• *hikrattî*: cut off/destroy/eliminate
• *ha-zōnîm*: those who prostitute themselves/those who are unfaithful/those who commit harlotry
• *li-znôt*: to commit harlotry/to be unfaithful/to prostitute themselves
• *ʿammām*: their people/their community

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  then I will set my face against that man and his family, and I will cut off from their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves to Molech.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Moch, from among their peop.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  then I will set{H7760} my face{H6440} against that man,{H376} and against his family,{H4940} and will cut him off,{H3772} and all that play the harlot{H2181} after{H310} him, to play the harlot{H2181} with Molech,{H4432} from among{H7130} their people.{H5971}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Then I will set{H7760}{(H8804)} my face{H6440} against that man{H376}, and against his family{H4940}, and will cut him off{H3772}{(H8689)}, and all that go a whoring{H2181}{(H8802)} after{H310} him, to commit whoredom{H2181}{(H8800)} with Molech{H4432}, from among{H7130} their people{H5971}.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  yet I will put my face apon that man and apon his houssholde, and will destroy him and all that goo a whooringe with him and comytt hoordome with Moloch from amonge their people.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  yet wyl I set my face agaynst the same man, & agaynst his generacion: And him, and all that go a whorynge with him after Moloch, wyll I rote out from amonge their people.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Then will I set my face against that man, and against his familie, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him to comit whoredome with Molech, from among their people.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  I wyll put my face agaynst that man, and agaynst his kynred, and wyll cut hym of, and all that go a whoring after hym to commit whordome with Moloch, from among their people.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him, to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  then I have set My face against that man, and against his family, and have cut him off, and all who are going a-whoring after him, even going a-whoring after the Molech, from the midst of their people.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that play the harlot after him, to play the harlot with Molech, from among their people.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that play the harlot after him, to play the harlot with Molech, from among their people.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Then my face will be turned against him and his family, and he and all those who do evil with him will be cut off from among their people.

• World English Bible (2000)

  then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him, to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  I myself will set my face against that man and his clan. I will cut off from the midst of their people both him and all who follow after him in spiritual prostitution, to commit prostitution by worshiping Molech.

Referenced Verses

• Exod 20:5 : 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me.
• Lev 17:7 : 7 And they shall no longer offer their sacrifices to demons, after whom they have gone whoring. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.
• Lev 17:10 : 10 And whatever man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that dwell among you, that eats any manner of blood; I will set my face against that soul that eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
• Ps 106:39 : 39 Thus they were defiled with their own works, and played the harlot with their own inventions.
• Jer 3:2 : 2 Lift up your eyes to the high places and see where you have not been violated. On the roads you have sat for them, like an Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your whoredoms and your wickedness.
• Jer 32:28-35 : 28 Therefore thus says the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it: 29 And the Chaldeans, who fight against this city, shall come and set fire to this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger. 30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, says the LORD. 31 For this city has been to me a provocation of my anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even to this day; that I should remove it from before my face, 32 Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 33 And they have turned to me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction. 34 But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it. 35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
• Jer 32:39 : 39 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and their children after them:
• Hos 2:5 : 5 For their mother has played the harlot: she who conceived them has acted shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.
• Hos 2:13 : 13 And I will punish her for the days of the Baals, when she burned incense to them, and she adorned herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me, says the LORD.