Verse 10

Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Har vi ikke alle én far? Har ikke én Gud skapt oss? Hvordan kan vi svikte hverandre ved å vanhellige pakt fra våre forfedre?

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Har vi ikke alle én far? Har ikke én Gud skapt oss? Hvorfor handler vi troløst mot hverandre ved å vanære våre fedres pakt?

• Norsk King James

  Har vi ikke alle én far? Har ikke én Gud skapt oss? Hvorfor svikter vi hverandre, ved å vanhellige våre foreldres pakt?

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Har vi ikke alle én far? Har ikke én Gud skapt oss? Hvorfor handler vi svikefullt mot hverandre og vanhelliger våre forfedres pakt?

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Har vi ikke alle én far? Har ikke én Gud skapt oss? Hvorfor forråder vi hverandre og profanerer våre fedres pakt?

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Har vi ikke alle én far? Har ikke én Gud skapt oss? Hvorfor sviker vi hverandre ved å vanhellige våre fedres pakt?

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Har vi ikke alle én far? Har ikke én Gud skapt oss? Hvorfor behandler vi hverandre forrædersk, ved å vanhellige våre fedres pakt?

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

  Har vi ikke alle én far? Har ikke én Gud skapt oss? Hvorfor sviker vi hverandre ved å vanhellige våre fedres pakt?

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Har vi ikke alle én Far? Har ikke én Gud skapt oss? Hvorfor forråder vi da hverandre ved å bryte våre forfedres pakt?

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we deal treacherously with one another, profaning the covenant of our ancestors?

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Har vi ikke alle én Far? Har ikke én Gud skapt oss? Hvorfor sviker vi da enhver sin bror og vanhelliger våre fedres pakt?

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Have vi ikke allesammen een Fader? haver ikke een Gud skabt os? hvorfor handle vi troløst, den Ene imod den Anden, at vanhellige vore Fædres Pagt?

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Har vi ikke alle én far? Har ikke én Gud skapt oss? Hvorfor handler vi svikefullt hver mann mot sin bror ved å vanhellige våre fedres pakt?

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Har vi ikke alle én far? Har ikke én Gud skapt oss? Hvorfor sviker vi da hverandre, og vanhelliger våre fedres pakt?

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Har vi ikke alle én far? Har ikke Gud skapt oss? Hvorfor er vi troløse mot hverandre, og vanærer våre fedres pakt?

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Har vi ikke alle én far? Har ikke én Gud skapt oss? Hvorfor handler vi da svikefullt, hver mann mot sin bror, og vanhelliger våre fedres pakt?

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Har vi ikke alle én far? Har ikke én Gud skapt oss? Hvorfor handler hver og en falskt mot sin bror, og vanærer våre fedres pakt?

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Haue we not all one father? Hath not one God made vs? why doth euery one off vs then despyse his owne brother, and so breake the couenaunt of oure fathers?

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Haue we not all one father? hath not one God made vs? why doe we transgresse euery one against his brother, and breake the couenant of our fathers?

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Haue we not all one father? hath not God made vs al? why then is euery one deceaued of his brother, to violate the couenaunt of our fathers?

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ¶ Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Don't we all have one father? Hasn't one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Have we not all one father? Hath not our God prepared us? Wherefore do we deal treacherously, Each against his brother, To pollute the covenant of our fathers?

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Have we not all one father? has not one God made us? why are we, every one of us, acting falsely to his brother, putting shame on the agreement of our fathers?

• World English Bible (2000)

  Don't we all have one father? Hasn't one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  The Rebellion of the People Do we not all have one father? Did not one God create us? Why do we betray one another, in this way making light of the covenant of our ancestors?

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 8:6 : 6 Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through Him we live.
• Eph 4:6 : 6 One God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in you all.
• Isa 63:16 : 16 Doubtless you are our Father, though Abraham is ignorant of us, and Israel does not acknowledge us: you, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer; your name is from everlasting.
• Isa 64:8 : 8 But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
• Mal 2:11 : 11 Judah 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.
• Jer 9:4-5 : 4 Take heed every one of his neighbor, and do not trust in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders. 5 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
• John 8:41 : 41 You do the deeds of your father. Then they said to him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
• John 8:53 : 53 Are you greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? And the prophets are dead: whom do you make yourself out to be?
• John 8:56 : 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
• Acts 7:2 : 2 And he said, Men, brothers, and fathers, listen; The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
• Acts 7:26 : 26 And the next day he showed himself to them as they were quarreling, and would have set them at peace, saying, Men, you are brothers; why do you wrong one another?
• Acts 17:25 : 25 Nor is He worshipped with men's hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things;
• Rom 4:1 : 1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh?
• Rom 9:10 : 10 And not only this; but Rebecca also had conceived by one man, even by our father Isaac;
• 1 Cor 6:6-8 : 6 But brother goes to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. 7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to law one with another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather allow yourselves to be defrauded? 8 No, you do wrong and defraud, and that your brethren.
• Ezek 33:24 : 24 Son of man, those who inhabit the ruins in the land of Israel are speaking, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us as a possession.
• Mic 7:2-6 : 2 The good man has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among men; they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt each his brother with a net. 3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up. 4 The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of your watchmen and your visitation comes; now shall be their perplexity. 5 Do not trust in a friend, put no confidence in a guide: keep the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom. 6 For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.
• Mal 1:6 : 6 A son honors his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honor? and if I be a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, that despise my name. And you say, How have we despised your name?
• Mal 2:8 : 8 But you have turned out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts.
• Eph 4:25 : 25 Therefore, putting away lying, let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.
• 1 Thess 4:6 : 6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
• Heb 12:9 : 9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we respected them: shall we not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
• Mal 2:14-15 : 14 Yet you say, Why? Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously; yet she is your companion and the wife of your covenant. 15 And did he not make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And why one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
• Matt 3:9 : 9 And do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as our father: for I say to you, that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
• Matt 10:21 : 21 And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father the child; and the children shall rise against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
• Matt 22:16 : 16 And they sent out to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that you are true, and teach the way of God in truth, nor do you care about anyone, for you do not regard the person of men.
• Luke 1:73 : 73 The oath which He swore to our father Abraham:
• Luke 3:8 : 8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as our father: for I say to you, That God is able out of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
• John 8:39 : 39 They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.
• Exod 19:5 : 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:
• Exod 34:10-16 : 10 And he said, "Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do wonders, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you." 11 Observe what I command you this day: behold, I am driving out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 12 Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare in your midst. 13 But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images. 14 For you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. 15 Lest 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. 16 And you take their daughters for your sons, and their daughters go whoring after their gods, and make your sons go whoring after their gods.
• Josh 23:12-16 : 12 Otherwise, 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: 13 Know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you. 14 And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spoke concerning you; all have come to pass for you, and not one thing has failed thereof. 15 Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things have come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you, so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you. 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.
• Josh 24:3 : 3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the river, and led him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants, and gave him Isaac.
• Ezra 9:11-14 : 11 Which You have commanded by Your servants the prophets, saying, The land unto which you go to possess it is an unclean land with the filthiness of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness. 12 Now therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth forever, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land, and leave it as an inheritance to your children forever. 13 And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespass, seeing that You our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such deliverance as this; 14 Should we again break Your commandments and join in affinity with the peoples of these abominations? Would You not be angry with us until You had consumed us, so that there should be no remnant or escaping?
• Ezra 10:2-3 : 2 And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, We have sinned against our God and have taken foreign wives from the peoples of the land, yet now there is hope for Israel in this matter. 3 Therefore, let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the advice of my lord and those who tremble at the command of our God. Let it be done according to the law.
• Neh 13:29 : 29 Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.
• Job 31:15 : 15 Did not He that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?
• Ps 100:3 : 3 Know that the LORD, He is God; it is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
• Isa 43:1 : 1 But now, this is what the LORD who created you says, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine.
• Isa 43:7 : 7 Everyone who is called by My name: for I have created him for My glory, I have formed him; yes, I have made him.
• Isa 43:15 : 15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.
• Isa 44:2 : 2 Thus says the LORD that made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and you, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
• Isa 51:2 : 2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.