Verse 15

Though you, Israel, play the harlot, do not let Judah offend; do not come to Gilgal, nor go up to Bethaven, nor swear, 'As the LORD lives.'

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Hvis du, Israel, lever i hor, skal ikke Juda bli uskyldig; ikke dra til Gilgal, ikke gå opp til Bet-Avin, og sverge ikke: 'Så sant Herren lever!'

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Selv om du, Israel, driver hor, la ikke Juda bli skyldig. Kom ikke til Gilgal, eller gå ikke opp til Bet-Aven. Sverg ikke: «Så sant Herren lever!»

• Norsk King James

  Selv om du, Israel, driver hor, ikke la Juda synde; kom ikke til Gilgal, og dra ikke opp til Bethaven, og sverge ikke; 'Herren lever'.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Hvis du, Israel, driver hor, så la ikke Juda bli skyldig; kom ikke til Gilgal, gå ikke opp til Bet-Aven, og sverg ikke: 'Så sant Herren lever!'

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Selv om du driver hor, Israel, la ikke Juda bli skyldig; ikke dra til Gilgal, eller gå opp til Bet-Aven, og sverg ikke: Så sant Herren lever!

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Selv om du, Israel, driver hor, la ikke Juda bli skyldig; gå ikke til Gilgal, dra ikke opp til Bet-aven, og sverg ikke: Så sant Herren lever.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Selv om du, Israel, driver utukt, skal ikke Juda fornærmes; kom ikke til Gilgal, og gå ikke opp til Bethaven, eller sverg: 'Herren lever!'

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

  Selv om du, Israel, driver hor, la ikke Juda bli skyldig; gå ikke til Gilgal, dra ikke opp til Bet-aven, og sverg ikke: Så sant Herren lever.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Selv om du driver hor, Israel, la ikke Juda bli skyldig. Gå ikke til Gilgal, og dra ikke opp til Bet-Avin, og sverg ikke: Så sant Herren lever!

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Though you, Israel, play the harlot, let not Judah become guilty. Do not go to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth Aven, and do not swear, 'As surely as the LORD lives!'

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Om du, Israel, driver hor, la ikke Juda bli skyldig. Gå ikke til Gilgal, dra ikke opp til Bet-Aven, og sverg ikke: 'Så sant Herren lever!'

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Vil du, Israel, bedrive Horeri, saa gjøre dog Juda sig ikke skyldig; og kommer ikke til Gilgal, og gaaer ikke op til Beth-Aven, og sværger ikke: (Saa sandt som) Herren lever.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Tugh tu, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Om Israel driver hor, la ikke Juda bli skyldig. Kom ikke til Gilgal, gå ikke opp til Bet-aven, og sverg ikke: 'Så sant Herren lever.'

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  "Selv om du, Israel, driver hor, må du ikke la Juda bli skyldig; Og kom ikke til Gilgal, ikke gå opp til Bet Aven, og sverg ikke: 'Så sant Herren lever.'

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Selv om du driver hor, Israel, må ikke Juda bli skyldig. Gå ikke til Gilgal, gå ikke opp til Bet-Aven, og sverg ikke: 'Så sant Herren lever.'

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Om du, Israel, driver hor, la ikke Juda synde; og kom ikke til Gilgal, ikke gå opp til Bet-Aven, og sverg ikke: Så sant Herren lever.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Du, Israel, skal ikke feile; du, Juda, skal ikke gå til Gilgal, eller gå opp til Bet-aven, og ikke sverge, Ved den levende Herren.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Though thou Israel art disposed to playe ye harlot, yet shuldest not thou haue offended, o Iuda: thou shuldest not haue runne to Galgala, ner haue gone vp to Bethaue, ner haue sworne: the LORDE lyueth.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Iudah sinne: come not ye vnto Gilgal, neither goe ye vp to Beth-auen, nor sweare, The Lord liueth.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Though thou Israel play the harlot, yet let not Iuda sinne, come not ye vnto Gilgal, neither go ye to Bethauen, neither sweare ye, The Lorde liueth.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, [yet] let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  "Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, Yet don't let Judah offend; And don't come to Gilgal, Neither go up to Beth Aven, Nor swear, 'As Yahweh lives.'

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Though a harlot thou `art', O Israel, Let not Judah become guilty, And come not ye in to Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-Aven, Nor swear ye, Jehovah liveth.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, As Jehovah liveth.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Do not you, O Israel, come into error; do not you, O Judah, come to Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven, or take an oath, By the living Lord.

• World English Bible (2000)

  "Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, yet don't let Judah offend; and don't come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beth Aven, nor swear, 'As Yahweh lives.'

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Warning to Judah: Do Not Join in Israel’s Apostasy! Although you, O Israel, commit adultery, do not let Judah become guilty! Do not journey to Gilgal! Do not go up to Beth Aven! Do not swear,“As surely as the LORD lives!”

Referenced Verses

• Hos 9:15 : 15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them; for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.
• Hos 12:11 : 11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? Surely they are vanity; they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal; yes, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
• Amos 4:4 : 4 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgressions; bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes every three years:
• Amos 5:5 : 5 But do not seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and do not pass to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing.
• Hos 10:5 : 5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for its people shall mourn over it, and its priests who rejoiced on it, for its glory, because it has departed from it.
• Hos 10:8 : 8 The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: thorns and thistles shall grow on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, 'Cover us,' and to the hills, 'Fall on us.'
• Jer 5:2 : 2 And though they say, The LORD lives; surely they swear falsely.
• Amos 8:14 : 14 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Your god, O Dan, lives; and, The way of Beersheba lives; even they shall fall, and never rise again.
• Hos 5:8 : 8 Blow the horn in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after you, O Benjamin.
• Zeph 1:5-6 : 5 And those that worship the host of heaven on the rooftops; and those that worship and that swear by the LORD, and also swear by Milcom; 6 And those that have turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired for Him.
• Luke 12:47-48 : 47 And that servant, who knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, nor did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. 48 But he that did not know, and committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For to whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
• Eph 5:11 : 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
• 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 23:4-8 : 4 And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bore sons and daughters. Thus were their names: Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah. 5 And Aholah played the harlot while she was mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians her neighbors, 6 Who were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses. 7 Thus she committed her harlotries with them, with all the choice men of Assyria, and with all on whom she lusted: with all their idols she defiled herself. 8 She did not leave her harlotries brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their harlotry upon her.
• Hos 4:12 : 12 My people ask counsel from their wooden idols, and their staff declares to them, for the spirit of harlotry has caused them to err, and they have gone astray under their God.
• 1 Kgs 12:28-29 : 28 Therefore the king took counsel and made two calves of gold, and said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. 29 And he set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.
• 2 Kgs 17:18-19 : 18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed them from his sight; there was none left but the tribe of Judah only. 19 Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they had made.
• Isa 48:1 : 1 Listen to this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD, and mention the God of Israel, but not in truth or in righteousness.
• Jer 3:6-9 : 6 The LORD also said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot. 7 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn to me. But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. 8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also. 9 And it came to pass through the frivolity of her whoredom, that she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. 10 And yet for all this, her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to me with her whole heart, but in pretension, says the LORD. 11 And the LORD said to me, Backsliding Israel has justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
• Hos 11:12 : 12 Ephraim surrounds me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah still walks with God, and is faithful with the saints.
• Amos 6:10 : 10 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.