Nehemiah 13:27 — Compare Translations
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English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young
And to you do we hearken to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God, to settle strange women?`
English ASV
Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?
English Amplified
Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying strange (heathen) women?
English Amplified Classic Bible 1987
Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying strange (heathen) women?
English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025
Must we now hear that you too are doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?”
English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible
Why then should we hear about you doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?”
English Darby 1890 : Public Domain
And should we hearken to you to do all this great evil, to act unfaithfully to our God by marrying foreign wives?
English EASY 2024
We can never agree to all the evil things that you have done. If we all married foreign women, we would not be faithful to our God.’
English ERV 2006 - Only For Website
And now, we hear that you also are doing this terrible sin. You are not being true to God. You are marrying foreign women."
English ESV 2016 == The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles
Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?"
English GNT (Good News Translation)
Are we then to follow your example and disobey our God by marrying foreign women?”
English God's Word - GW 1995
Should we follow your example, commit such a serious crime against our God, and be unfaithful to him by marrying non-Israelite women?"
English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website
Why then should we hear about you doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?"
English KJV 1611
Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?
English LSB
Do we then hear about you that you have done all this great evil by acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?”
English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)
Should we then listen to you, the ones doing all this great evil, who are behaving unfaithfully against our God by bedding foreign women?”
English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)
"Do we then hear about you that you have committed all this great evil by acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?"
English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website
Must it also be heard of you that you have done this same very great evil, betraying our God by marrying foreign women?"
English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)
Should we then in your case hear that you do all this great evil, thereby being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign wives?”
English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website
Now I hear that you too are doing all of the same terrible and evil things. You aren't being faithful to our God. You are marrying women from other lands."
English NIV
Must we hear now that you too are doing all this terrible wickedness and are being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women?"
English NKJ 1982
Should we then hear of your doing all this great evil, transgressing against our God by marrying pagan women?”
English NLT
How could you even think of committing this sinful deed and acting unfaithfully toward God by marrying foreign women?"
English NRSV 1989 - Only for website
Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?"
English RSV (Revised Standard Version)
Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?”
English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)
Do you think that we will let you get away with this sinful deed?“
English Tyndale 1537
And shall we then obey unto you, to do all this great evil, and to transgress against our God, and marry strange wives?