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Jerusalem’s Unfaithfulness

Ezekiel 16:18

In 11 translations

BSB
You took your embroidered garments to cover them, and you set My oil and incense before them.
KJV
And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.
WEB
You took your embroidered garments, covered them, and set my oil and my incense before them.
ASV
and thou tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them, and didst set mine oil and mine incense before them.
LSV
And you take the garments of your embroidery, || And cover them, || And you have set My oil and My incense before them.
YLT
And dost take the garments of thy embroidery, And thou dost cover them, And My oil and My perfume thou hast set before them.
DBY
And thou tookest thine embroidered garments, and coveredst them; and thou didst set mine oil and mine incense before them.
DRC
And thou tookest thy garments of divers colours, and coveredst them: and settest my oil and my sweet incense before them.
GNV
And tookest thy broydred garments, and coueredst them: and thou hast set mine oyle and my perfume before them.
JPS
and thou didst take thy richly woven garments and cover them, and didst set Mine oil and Mine incense before them.
LXXE
And thou didst take thy variegated apparel and didst clothe them, and thou didst set before them mine oil and mine incense.

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Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (2)
  • Leningrad Codex reads נָתַ֖תְּי; read aloud (Qere) reads נָתַ֖תְּ (“you put”).
  • Written (Ketiv): נָתַתִּי. Read aloud (Qere): נָתַ֖תְּ (“you put”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.

Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.

Original-language editions

WLC
וַתִּקְחִ֛י אֶת־בִּגְדֵ֥י רִקְמָתֵ֖ךְ וַתְּכַסִּ֑ים וְשַׁמְנִי֙ וּקְטָרְתִּ֔י נתתי לִפְנֵיהֶֽם׃Read aloud as (qere): נָתַ֖תְּ
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἔλαβες τὸν ἱματισμὸν τὸν ποικίλον σου, καὶ περιέβαλες αὐτὰς, καὶ τὸ ἔλαιόν μου καὶ τὸ θυμίαμά μου ἔθηκας πρὸ προσώπου αὐτῶν.

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