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Bishop's Bible
Deuteronomy 23:6
Thou shalt not seeke their peace nor wealth all thy dayes, for euer.
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Christian Standard Bible®
Never pursue their welfare or prosperity as long as you live.
Never pursue their welfare or prosperity as long as you live.
Hebrew Names Version
You shall not seek their shalom nor their prosperity all your days forever.
You shall not seek their shalom nor their prosperity all your days forever.
King James Version
Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
Lexham English Bible
You shall not promote their welfare or their prosperity all your days forever.
You shall not promote their welfare or their prosperity all your days forever.
English Standard Version
You shall not seek their peace or their prosperity all your days forever.
You shall not seek their peace or their prosperity all your days forever.
New Century Version
Don't wish for their peace or success as long as you live.
Don't wish for their peace or success as long as you live.
New English Translation
You must not seek peace and prosperity for them through all the ages to come.
You must not seek peace and prosperity for them through all the ages to come.
Amplified Bible
"You shall never seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days.
"You shall never seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days.
New American Standard Bible
"You shall never seek their peace or their prosperity all your days.
"You shall never seek their peace or their prosperity all your days.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou shalt not seeke their peace nor their prosperitie all thy dayes for euer.
Thou shalt not seeke their peace nor their prosperitie all thy dayes for euer.
Legacy Standard Bible
You shall never seek their peace or their prosperity all your days.
You shall never seek their peace or their prosperity all your days.
Contemporary English Version
Don't even think of signing a peace treaty with Moab or Ammon.
Don't even think of signing a peace treaty with Moab or Ammon.
Complete Jewish Bible
But Adonai your God would not listen to Bil‘am; rather, Adonai your God turned the curse into a blessing for you; because Adonai your God loved you.
But Adonai your God would not listen to Bil‘am; rather, Adonai your God turned the curse into a blessing for you; because Adonai your God loved you.
Darby Translation
Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
Easy-to-Read Version
You must never try to make peace with the Ammonites or Moabites. As long as you live, don't be friendly to them.
You must never try to make peace with the Ammonites or Moabites. As long as you live, don't be friendly to them.
George Lamsa Translation
You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all the days of your life for ever.
You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all the days of your life for ever.
Good News Translation
As long as you are a nation, never do anything to help these nations or to make them prosperous.
As long as you are a nation, never do anything to help these nations or to make them prosperous.
Literal Translation
You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days, perpetually.
You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days, perpetually.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou shalt wysh him nether prosperite ner health all thy life longe for euer.
Thou shalt wysh him nether prosperite ner health all thy life longe for euer.
American Standard Version
Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
Bible in Basic English
Do nothing for their peace or well-being for ever.
Do nothing for their peace or well-being for ever.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.
Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.
King James Version (1611)
Thou shalt not seek their peace, nor their prosperity all thy dayes for euer.
Thou shalt not seek their peace, nor their prosperity all thy dayes for euer.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou shalt not speak peaceably or profitably to them all thy days for ever.
Thou shalt not speak peaceably or profitably to them all thy days for ever.
English Revised Version
Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
Berean Standard Bible
You are not to seek peace or prosperity from them as long as you live.
You are not to seek peace or prosperity from them as long as you live.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou schalt not make pees with hem, nethir thou schalt seke goodis to hem, in alle the daies of thi lijf in to with outen ende.
Thou schalt not make pees with hem, nethir thou schalt seke goodis to hem, in alle the daies of thi lijf in to with outen ende.
Young's Literal Translation
thou dost not seek their peace and their good all thy days -- to the age.
thou dost not seek their peace and their good all thy days -- to the age.
Update Bible Version
You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.
You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt not seek their peace, nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
Thou shalt not seek their peace, nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
World English Bible
You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.
You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.
New King James Version
You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.
You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.
New Living Translation
As long as you live, you must never promote the welfare and prosperity of the Ammonites or Moabites.
As long as you live, you must never promote the welfare and prosperity of the Ammonites or Moabites.
New Life Bible
Do nothing for their peace or their well-being all your days.
Do nothing for their peace or their well-being all your days.
New Revised Standard
You shall never promote their welfare or their prosperity as long as you live.
You shall never promote their welfare or their prosperity as long as you live.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their welfare, - all thy days, unto times age-abiding.
Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their welfare, - all thy days, unto times age-abiding.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not make peace with them, neither shalt thou seek their prosperity all the days of thy life for ever.
Thou shalt not make peace with them, neither shalt thou seek their prosperity all the days of thy life for ever.
Revised Standard Version
You shall not seek their peace or their prosperity all your days for ever.
You shall not seek their peace or their prosperity all your days for ever.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall never seek their peace or their prosperity all your days.
"You shall never seek their peace or their prosperity all your days.
Contextual Overview
1 None that is hurt by burstyng, or hath his priuie members cut of, shal come into the congregation of ye Lord. 2 And a bastarde shall not come into the congregation of the Lorde: no not in the tenth generation he shall not enter into the congregation of the Lorde. 3 The Ammonites and the Moabites shall not come into the congregation of the Lorde, no not in the tenth generation, nor they shall neuer come into the congregation of the Lorde: 4 Because they met you not with bread and water in the way, when ye came out of Egypt, and because they hyred against thee Balaam the sonne of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee. 5 Neuerthelesse, the Lorde thy God woulde not hearken vnto Balaam: but the Lord thy God turned the curse to a blessing vnto thee, because the Lord thy God loued thee. 6 Thou shalt not seeke their peace nor wealth all thy dayes, for euer. 7 Thou shalt not abhorre an Edomite, for he is thy brother: neither shalt thou abhorre an Egyptian, because thou wast a straunger in his lande. 8 The children that are begotten of the, shal come into the congregation of the Lorde in the thirde generation.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Thou shalt: 2 Samuel 8:2, 2 Samuel 12:31, Ezra 9:12, Nehemiah 13:23-25
prosperity: Heb. good
Reciprocal: Matthew 5:43 - and hate
Cross-References
Genesis 13:2
And Abram was very ryche in cattell, in siluer, and in golde.
And Abram was very ryche in cattell, in siluer, and in golde.
Genesis 14:14
When Abram hearde that his brother was taken, he armed his exercised [seruauntes] whiche were borne in his owne house, three hundreth & eyghteen, and folowed on them vntyll Dan.
When Abram hearde that his brother was taken, he armed his exercised [seruauntes] whiche were borne in his owne house, three hundreth & eyghteen, and folowed on them vntyll Dan.
Genesis 18:12
Therefore Sara laughed within her selfe, saying: Nowe I am waxed olde shal I geue my selfe to lust, and my Lorde olde also?
Therefore Sara laughed within her selfe, saying: Nowe I am waxed olde shal I geue my selfe to lust, and my Lorde olde also?
Genesis 21:22
And at the same season, Abimelech and Phicol his chiefe captayne spake vnto Abraham, saying, God [is] with thee in all that thou doest:
And at the same season, Abimelech and Phicol his chiefe captayne spake vnto Abraham, saying, God [is] with thee in all that thou doest:
Genesis 23:1
Sara was an hudreth and seuen and twentie yere olde (so long liued she.)
Sara was an hudreth and seuen and twentie yere olde (so long liued she.)
Genesis 23:2
And Sara dyed in Ciriath arba, the same is Hebron, in the lande of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourne for Sara, and to weepe for her.
And Sara dyed in Ciriath arba, the same is Hebron, in the lande of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourne for Sara, and to weepe for her.
Genesis 23:4
I am a straunger and a foriner amongest you: geue me a possession to bury in with you, that I may bury my corse out of my sight.
I am a straunger and a foriner amongest you: geue me a possession to bury in with you, that I may bury my corse out of my sight.
Genesis 23:5
And the chyldren of Heth aunswered Abraham, saying vnto hym:
And the chyldren of Heth aunswered Abraham, saying vnto hym:
Genesis 24:18
And she sayd: drinke my Lorde. And she hasted, and let downe her pytcher vpon her arme, and gaue him drinke.
And she sayd: drinke my Lorde. And she hasted, and let downe her pytcher vpon her arme, and gaue him drinke.
Genesis 24:35
And God blessed my maister merueylously, that he is become great, and hath geuen him sheepe and oxen, siluer and golde, men seruauntes, and maydeseruauntes, camelles and asses.
And God blessed my maister merueylously, that he is become great, and hath geuen him sheepe and oxen, siluer and golde, men seruauntes, and maydeseruauntes, camelles and asses.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever. Not that they were to retain malice towards them, or indulge a spirit of revenge, or not do them any good offices in a private way, which is contrary to the law of love; nor does this contradict any offices of kindness and friendship that might be performed in a personal way: so we find that David had a kindness for Hanun the Ammonite, and showed it, though ill rewarded for it, yet is not blamed for doing it; 2 Samuel 10:2 for these words respect not persons in a private capacity, but the people of Israel as a body politic, who, as such, were not to carry on trade and commerce with those people, nor intermarry with them, nor make leagues and enter into alliances with them; the reason of which was, because being very near neighbours to them, had there not been such a law, as a wall of partition between them, they might have become very familiar, and so have learnt their evil ways and customs, which this was designed to prevent: the Jews restrain o this to overtures and proclamations of peace, which they were not to make with these nations, as they were directed to do when they went out to war with others, Deuteronomy 20:10.
o Hilchot Melachim, c. 6. sect. 6.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
i. e. “thou shalt not invite them robe on terms of amity with thee (compare Deuteronomy 20:10 ff), nor make their welfare thy care”: compare Ezra 9:12. There is no injunction to hatred or retaliation (compare Deuteronomy 2:9, Deuteronomy 2:19); but later history contains frequent record of hostility between Israel and these nations.
