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The Song of Moses

Deuteronomy 32:16

In 11 translations

BSB
They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
KJV
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
WEB
They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.
ASV
They moved him to jealousy with strange gods; With abominations provoked they him to anger.
LSV
They make Him zealous with strangers, || They make Him angry with abominations.
YLT
They make Him zealous with strangers, With abominations they make Him angry.
DBY
They moved him to jealousy with strange gods, With abominations did they provoke him to anger.Elohim
DRC
They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations.
GNV
They prouoked him with strange gods: they prouoked him to anger with abominations.
JPS
They roused Him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations did they provoke Him.
LXXE
They provoked me to anger with strange gods; with their abominations they bitterly angered me.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
יַקְנִאֻ֖הוּ בְּזָרִ֑ים בְּתוֹעֵבֹ֖ת יַכְעִיסֻֽהוּ׃
LXX-Br
Παρώξυνάν με ἐπʼ ἀλλοτρίοις· ἐν βδελύγμασιν αὐτῶν παρεπίκρανάν με.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 78:58They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
  • 1 Corinthians 10:22Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
  • Deuteronomy 7:25You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God.
  • Deuteronomy 5:9You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
  • Leviticus 18:27For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.
  • Nahum 1:1–2This is the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite: The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on His foes and reserves wrath…
  • 1 Kings 14:22And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and by the sins they committed they provoked Him to jealous anger more than all their fathers had done.
  • 2 Kings 23:13The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of…

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