Verse 10

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they went to Baal Peor, and separated themselves to that shame, and their abominations were according to their loves.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Som druer i ørkenen fant jeg Israel. Som den første frukten på fikentreet så jeg deres forfedre. Men de dro til Baal-Peor for å følge sine lyster, og de ble avskyelige, lik dem de elsket.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Jeg fant Israel som druer i ørkenen; jeg så deres fedre som den første frukten på fikentreet tidlig i sesongen. Men de dro til Ba'al-Peor og viet seg til skam, og deres vederstyggeligheter ble som det de elsket.

• Norsk King James

  Jeg fant Israel som druer i ørkenen; jeg så deres fedre som de første fikene fra fikentreet; men de gikk til Baal-Peor og førte skam over seg; deres avskyeligheter fulgte dem.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Jeg fant Israel som druer i ørkenen, jeg så deres fedre som de første frukter på fikentreet når det begynner å bære, men de gikk til Baal-Peor og viet seg til den skammelige avguden. De ble like skammelige som det de elsket.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Som druer i ørkenen fant jeg Israel, som de første fruktene på et figentre ble jeg glad i deres fedre. Men de gikk til Baal-Peor og viet seg til skammen, og de ble like vederstyggelige som den de elsket.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Jeg fant Israel som druer i ørkenen; jeg så deres fedre som tidlig frukt på fikentreet ved første modning. Men de gikk til Ba'al-Peor og viet seg til skammen der; de ble avskyelige som det de elsket.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Jeg fant Israel som druer i ørkenen; jeg så dine fedre som den første kvisten på fiken-treet i sin begynnende modenhet; men de dro til Baalpeor og vendte seg bort til skammen, og de avskyelige handlingene de gjorde, var som de elsket dem.

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

  Jeg fant Israel som druer i ørkenen; jeg så deres fedre som tidlig frukt på fikentreet ved første modning. Men de gikk til Ba'al-Peor og viet seg til skammen der; de ble avskyelige som det de elsket.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Som druer i ørkenen fant jeg Israel; som første modne fiken på et fikentre i dens første frukt så jeg deres fedre. Men de kom til Baal-Peor og viet seg til skam, og de ble ekle som det de elsket.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your ancestors. But they went to Baal Peor, consecrated themselves to shame, and became as detestable as the thing they loved.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Som druer i ørkenen fant jeg Israel. Som de første frukter på et fikentre i begynnelsen av sesongen så jeg deres fedre. Men de kom til Baal-Peor og viet seg til skammen, og ble motbydelige som det de elsket.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Jeg fandt Israel som Druer i Ørken, jeg saae eders Fædre som den første Frugt paa Figentræet, naar det begynder (at bære Frugt; men) de gik ind til Baal-Peor, og fraskilte sig til den skammelige Afgud, og de bleve Vederstyggeligheder, saasom de elskede.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Jeg fant Israel som druer i ørkenen; jeg så deres fedre som det første modne treet i et fikentre på sin første tid; men de gikk til Ba'al-Peor og viet seg til skammen, og deres motbydeligheter var som det de elsket.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Jeg fant Israel som druer i ørkenen. Jeg så deres fedre som de første modne frukter på fikentreet i sin første sesong. Men de kom til Ba'al-Peor og viet seg til det skammelige, og ble avskyelige lik det de elsket.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Som druer i ørkenen fant jeg Israel, som de første fruktene i et fikentre ved begynnelsen så jeg deres fedre. De gikk til Baal-Peor, hengav seg til skam, og ble avskyelige som det de elsket.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Jeg fant Israel som druer i ødemarken; jeg så deres fedre som den første frukt på fikentreet i dens første sesong: men de kom til Ba’al-Peor og innviet seg til skamfulle ting, og ble avskyelig som det de elsket.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Jeg fant Israel som druer i en ødemark; jeg så deres fedre som tidlig fiken på et fikentre; men de kom til Ba’al-Peor og viet seg til skam, og ble avskyelige som det de elsket.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  I fande Israel like grapes in the wildernes, & sawe their fathers as the first fyges in ye toppe of ye fyge tre. But they are gone to Baal Peor, & runne awaie fro me to yt shamefull Idoll, & are become as abhominable as their louers

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  I found Israel like grapes in the wildernes: I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the figge tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-Peor, and separated themselues vnto that shame, and their abominations were according to their louers.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  I founde Israel like grapes in the wildernesse, & sawe their fathers as the first ripe in ye figge tree at her first season: but they went to Baal Peor, & seperated them selues to that shame, and became as abhominable as their louers.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: [but] they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto [that] shame; and [their] abominations were according as they loved.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; But they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, And became abominable like that which they loved.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  As grapes in a wilderness I found Israel, As the first-fruit in a fig-tree, at its beginning, I have seen your fathers, They -- they have gone in `to' Baal-Peor, And are separated to a shameful thing, And are become abominable like their love.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love.

• World English Bible (2000)

  I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness. I viewed your ancestors like an early fig on a fig tree in its first season. Then they came to Baal-Peor and they dedicated themselves to shame– they became as detestable as what they loved.

Referenced Verses

• Jer 11:13 : 13 For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.
• Hos 4:14 : 14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, nor your spouses when they commit adultery, for the men themselves are separated with harlots, and they sacrifice with temple prostitutes. Therefore, the people who do not understand shall fall.
• Ezek 20:8 : 8 But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me: they did not cast away every man the abominations of their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
• Hos 2:15 : 15 And I will give her vineyards from there, and the Valley of Achor as a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came out of the land of Egypt.
• Jer 2:2-3 : 2 Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the LORD; I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your engagements, when you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. 3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, says the LORD.
• Num 25:1-9 : 1 And Israel stayed in Shittim, and the people began to commit immorality with the daughters of Moab. 2 And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods. 3 And Israel joined himself to Baal of Peor, and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. 4 And the LORD said to Moses, Take all the leaders of the people and hang them up before the LORD in the sunlight, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel. 5 And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Slay each of his men who were joined to Baal of Peor. 6 And behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the entrance of the tabernacle of the congregation. 7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand; 8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel. 9 And those who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand. 10 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was zealous for my sake among them, that I did not consume the children of Israel in my jealousy. 12 Therefore say, Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace: 13 And he shall have it, and his descendants after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel. 14 Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a leader of a chief house among the Simeonites. 15 And the name of the Midianite woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian. 16 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 17 Harass the Midianites, and strike them: 18 For they harass you with their tricks, by which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a leader of Midian, their sister, who was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake.
• Ps 106:28-29 : 28 They joined themselves also to Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. 29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions, and the plague broke out among them.
• Mic 7:1 : 1 Woe is me! For I am like when they have gathered the summer fruits, like the grape gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat; my soul desired the first ripe fruit.
• Rom 6:21 : 21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
• Isa 28:4 : 4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be a fading flower, and like the early fruit before the summer; which when he who looks upon it sees, while it is yet in his hand he eats it up.
• Exod 19:4-6 : 4 You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I carried you on eagles' wings, and brought you to myself. 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to me above all people; for all the earth is mine: 6 And you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.
• Num 13:23-24 : 23 And they came to the Valley of Eshcol, and cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it between two on a staff. They also brought pomegranates and figs. 24 The place was called the Valley of Eshcol because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down there.
• Num 15:39 : 39 And it shall be for you a fringe, that you may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that you do not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, in which you used to go astray:
• Deut 4:3 : 3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD your God has destroyed them from among you.
• Deut 32:10 : 10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
• Deut 32:17 : 17 They sacrificed to demons, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
• Judg 6:32 : 32 Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he has thrown down his altar.
• 1 Kgs 16:31 : 31 And as if it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and worshipped him.
• Ps 81:12 : 12 So I gave them up to their own hearts' desires, and they walked in their own counsels.
• Jer 5:31 : 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end thereof?
• Jer 31:2 : 2 Thus says the LORD, The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to give him rest.
• Hos 11:1 : 1 When Israel was a child, I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
• Amos 4:5 : 5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this pleases you, O children of Israel, says the Lord GOD.