Ezekiel 20:29

In 11 translations

BSB

So I asked them: ‘What is this high place to which you go?’ (And to this day it is called Bamah.)Bamah means high place.

KJV

Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.I said…: or, I told them what the high place was, or, Bamah

WEB

Then I said to them, ‘What does the high place where you go mean?’ So its name is called Bamah to this day.”’“Bamah” means “High Place”.

ASV

Then I said unto them, What meaneth the high place whereunto ye go? So the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.

LSV

And I say to them: What [is] the high place to where you are going in?” And its name is called “High Place” to this day.

YLT

And I say unto them: What [is] the high place whither ye are going in? And its name is called 'high place' to this day.

DBY

And I said unto them, What is the high place whither ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.

DRC

And I said to them: What meaneth the high place to which you go? and the name thereof was called High-place even to this day.

GNV

Then I saide vnto them, What is the hie place whereunto ye goe? And the name thereof was called Bamah vnto this day.

JPS

Then I said unto them: What meaneth the high place whereunto ye go? So the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.

LXXE

And I said to them, What is Abama, that ye go in thither? and they called its name Abama, until this day.

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WLC

וָאֹמַ֣ר אֲלֵהֶ֔ם מָ֣ה הַבָּמָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־אַתֶּ֥ם הַבָּאִ֖ים שָׁ֑ם וַיִּקָּרֵ֤א שְׁמָהּ֙ בָּמָ֔ה עַ֖ד הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ εἶπον πρὸς αὐτοὺς, τί ἐστιν Ἀβαμὰ, ὅτι ὑμεῖς εἰσπορεύεσθε ἐκεῖ; καὶ ἐπεκάλεσαν τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Ἀβαμὰ, ἕως τῆς σήμερον ἡμέρας·

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• Ezekiel 16:24–25you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square. At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs…
• Ezekiel 16:31But when you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were not even like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.

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