Verse 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.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Og jeg så at fordi det frafalne Israel hadde drevet hor, måtte jeg sende henne bort med et skilsmissebrev. Men hennes troløse søster, Judah, var ikke redd; hun gikk også bort og begikk hor.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Og jeg så, da det frafalne Israel hadde begått ekteskapsbrudd, at jeg sendte henne bort og ga henne et skilsmissebrev; likevel fryktet ikke hennes forræderiske søster Juda, men gikk og drev også hor.

• Norsk King James

  Og jeg så, da jeg ga frafallen Israel skilsmissebrev for alt hennes utroskap, at hennes illojale søster Juda ikke fryktet, men gikk og var utro likevel.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Og jeg så at fordi Israel var vantro og drev hor, sendte jeg henne bort og ga henne skilsmissebrev. Likevel fryktet ikke den svikefulle Juda, hennes søster, men hun gikk også og drev hor.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Jeg så at fordi den frafalne Israel hadde begått ekteskapsbrudd, sendte jeg henne bort og skrev et skilsmissebrev til henne. Men den forræderske søsteren Juda var ikke redd; hun gikk også bort og drev hor.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Og jeg så at da for alle de grunnene det frafalne Israel hadde begått utroskap, hadde jeg kastet henne bort og gitt henne et skilsmissebrev; likevel fryktet ikke hennes forræderske søster Juda, men gikk og oppførte seg som en skjøge også.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Og jeg så at for alle de grunner til at frafalt Israel hadde begått utroskap, hadde jeg skilt henne og gitt henne et skilsmissebrev; likevel var ikke hennes forræderske søster Juda redd, men dro og begikk utroskap.

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

  Og jeg så at da for alle de grunnene det frafalne Israel hadde begått utroskap, hadde jeg kastet henne bort og gitt henne et skilsmissebrev; likevel fryktet ikke hennes forræderske søster Juda, men gikk og oppførte seg som en skjøge også.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Jeg så at på grunn av alt utroskap som frafalne Israel hadde begått, jeg hadde sendt henne bort og gitt henne skilsmissebrev. Likevel fryktet hennes troløse søster Juda ikke, men også hun gikk og drev hor.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and prostituted herself.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Jeg så at selv om jeg hadde sendt bort det frafalne Israel på grunn av hennes utroskap og gitt henne skilsmissebrev, fryktet hennes troløse søster Juda ikke; hun gikk også og drev hor.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Og jeg saae, da jeg for alle de Sagers Skyld, i hvilke den forvendte Israel havde bedrevet Hor, lod hende fare og gav hende hendes Skilsmissebrev, at den troløse Juda, hendes Søster, ikke frygtede, men gik bort og bedrev ogsaa Horeri.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  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 feared not, but went and played the harlot also.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Og jeg så da jeg for alle årsakene hvorved det falne Israel begikk ekteskapsbrudd, hadde sendt henne bort og gitt henne skilsmissebrev; likevel fryktet ikke hennes troløse søster Juda, men gikk og drev hor også.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Jeg så, da frafallene Israel hadde begått utroskap, at jeg hadde satt henne bort og gitt henne skilsmissebrev, men hennes forræderske søster Juda fryktet ikke; hun gikk også og levde som en prostituert.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Og jeg så at da jeg sendte bort Israel for all hennes utroskap og ga henne skilsmissebrev, fryktet ikke hennes troløse søster Juda, men gikk og drev også hor.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Og jeg så, for det var av denne samme grunn at det frafalne Israel hadde drevet ekteskapsbrudd, jeg hadde skilt meg fra henne og gitt henne skilsmissebrev, men hennes troløse søster Juda fryktet ikke; hun gikk også og drev hor.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Og selv om hun så at fordi Israel hadde vendt seg bort fra meg og vært utro, hadde jeg skilt meg fra henne og gitt henne et skriv om skilsmisse, så hadde Juda, hennes falske søster, ingen frykt, men gikk og gjorde det samme.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Namely, that affter I had well sene the aduoutrye of the shrenkinge harlot Israel, I put her awaye, and gaue her a byll of deuorcement. For all this, hir vnfaithfull sister Iuda was not ashamed, but wente backe and played the whore also.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  When I sawe, howe that by all occasions rebellious Israel had plaied the harlot, I cast her away, and gaue her a bill of diuorcement: yet her rebellious sister Iudah was not afraied, but shee went also, and plaied the harlot.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Namely, that after I had well seene the adulterie of the shrinckyng harlot Israel, I put her away, and gaue her a byll of deuorcement: For all this, her vnfaithfull sister Iuda was not ashamed, but went backe and played the whore.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  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 feared not, but went and played the harlot also.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn't fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And I see when (for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery) I have sent her away, and I give the bill of her divorce unto her, that treacherous Judah her sister hath not feared, and goeth and committeth fornication -- she also.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorcement, yet treacherous Judah her sister feared not; but she also went and played the harlot.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And though she saw that, because Israel, turning away from me, had been untrue to me, I had put her away and given her a statement in writing ending the relation between us, still Judah, her false sister, had no fear, but went and did the same.

• World English Bible (2000)

  I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn't fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  She also saw that, because of wayward Israel’s adulterous worship of other gods, I sent her away and gave her divorce papers. But still her unfaithful sister Judah was not afraid, and she too went and gave herself like a prostitute to other gods.

Referenced Verses

• Deut 24:1 : 1 When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it comes to pass that she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a certificate of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
• Isa 50:1 : 1 Thus says the LORD, Where is the certificate of your mother's divorce, whom I have put away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you have sold yourselves, and for your transgressions your mother is put away.
• Jer 3:1 : 1 They say, If a man divorces his wife, and she leaves him and becomes another man's wife, shall he return to her again? Would not that land be greatly defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, says the LORD.
• Ezek 16:47 : 47 Yet you have not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as if that were a very little thing, you were corrupted more than they in all your ways.
• Ezek 23:9 : 9 Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she lusted.
• Ezek 23:11-21 : 11 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her lust than she, and in her harlotries more than her sister in her harlotries. 12 She lusted upon the Assyrians her neighbors, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men. 13 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they both followed the same way, 14 And that she increased her harlotries: for when she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, 15 Girded with sashes upon their loins, excellently attired upon their heads, all of them looking like princes, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity: 16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she lusted upon them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea. 17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their harlotry, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them. 18 So she uncovered her harlotries, and uncovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, just as my mind was alienated from her sister. 19 Yet she multiplied her harlotries, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, when she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. 20 For she lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. 21 Thus you called to remembrance the lewdness of your youth, in bruising your breasts by the Egyptians for the pleasures of your youth.
• Hos 2:2-3 : 2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; 3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.
• Hos 3:4 : 4 For the children of Israel shall remain many days without a king, without a prince, without a sacrifice, without a pillar, without an ephod, and without household gods.
• Hos 4:15-17 : 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.' 16 For Israel is stubborn like a stubborn calf: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large space. 17 Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone.
• Hos 9:15-17 : 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. 16 Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit; yes, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb. 17 My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
• Deut 24:3 : 3 And if the latter husband dislikes her, and writes her a certificate of divorce, and gives it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife;
• 2 Kgs 17:6-9 : 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. 7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods. 8 And they walked in the statutes of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. 9 The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortified city. 10 They set up images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree. 11 There they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations had done whom the LORD carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger. 12 For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing. 13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel and against Judah, by all the prophets and by all the seers, saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. 14 Nevertheless they would not listen, but stiffened their necks, like their fathers, who did not believe in the LORD their God. 15 They rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; they followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves, and went after the nations that were around them, although the LORD had commanded them not to do like them. 16 They left all the commandments of the LORD their God, made for themselves cast images, even two calves, made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. 17 They 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. 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.
• 2 Kgs 18:9-9 : 9 In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it. 10 At the end of three years they captured it. So, in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. 11 The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria and placed them in Halah and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,