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Updated Bible Version
Ezekiel 16:32
A wife that commits adultery! that takes strangers instead of her husband!
Bible Study Resources
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Christian Standard Bible®
You adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
You adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
Hebrew Names Version
A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!
A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!
King James Version
But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
English Standard Version
Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
New American Standard Bible
"You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!
"You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!
New Century Version
"‘You are a wife who is guilty of adultery. You desire strangers instead of your husband.
"‘You are a wife who is guilty of adultery. You desire strangers instead of your husband.
Amplified Bible
"You adulterous wife, who welcomes and receives strangers instead of her husband!
"You adulterous wife, who welcomes and receives strangers instead of her husband!
World English Bible
A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!
A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!
Geneva Bible (1587)
But as a wife that playeth the harlot, and taketh others for her husband:
But as a wife that playeth the harlot, and taketh others for her husband:
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!
"You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!
Legacy Standard Bible
You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!
You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!
Berean Standard Bible
You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband!
You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband!
Contemporary English Version
You are nothing but an unfaithful wife who would rather have sex with strangers than with your own husband.
You are nothing but an unfaithful wife who would rather have sex with strangers than with your own husband.
Complete Jewish Bible
Here is a wife who commits adultery, who goes to bed with strangers instead of her husband;
Here is a wife who commits adultery, who goes to bed with strangers instead of her husband;
Darby Translation
O adulterous wife, that taketh strangers instead of her husband.
O adulterous wife, that taketh strangers instead of her husband.
Easy-to-Read Version
You are a woman guilty of adultery. You would rather have sex with strangers than with your own husband.
You are a woman guilty of adultery. You would rather have sex with strangers than with your own husband.
George Lamsa Translation
And even not as clever as a whorish wife who takes a price from strangers.
And even not as clever as a whorish wife who takes a price from strangers.
Good News Translation
You are like a woman who commits adultery with strangers instead of loving her husband.
You are like a woman who commits adultery with strangers instead of loving her husband.
Lexham English Bible
O, adulterous woman! In the place of her husband she received strangers.
O, adulterous woman! In the place of her husband she received strangers.
Literal Translation
Like the adulterous wife, instead of her husband, she takes strangers.
Like the adulterous wife, instead of her husband, she takes strangers.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
but as a wife yt breaketh wedlocke, & taketh other in steade of hir hu?bode.
but as a wife yt breaketh wedlocke, & taketh other in steade of hir hu?bode.
American Standard Version
A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband!
A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband!
Bible in Basic English
The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!
The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou wife that committest adultery, that takest strangers instead of thy husband--
Thou wife that committest adultery, that takest strangers instead of thy husband--
King James Version (1611)
But as a wife that committeth adulterie, which taketh strangers in steede of her husband.
But as a wife that committeth adulterie, which taketh strangers in steede of her husband.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But as a wyfe that breaketh wedlocke, and taketh other in steede of her husbande.
But as a wyfe that breaketh wedlocke, and taketh other in steede of her husbande.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
An adulteress resembles thee, taking rewards of her husband.
An adulteress resembles thee, taking rewards of her husband.
English Revised Version
A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband!
A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband!
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
encreessynge prijs, but as a womman auowtresse, that bryngith in aliens on hir hosebonde.
encreessynge prijs, but as a womman auowtresse, that bryngith in aliens on hir hosebonde.
Webster's Bible Translation
[But as] a wife that committeth adultery, [who] taketh strangers instead of her husband!
[But as] a wife that committeth adultery, [who] taketh strangers instead of her husband!
New English Translation
"‘Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!
"‘Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!
New King James Version
You are an adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband.
You are an adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband.
New Living Translation
Yes, you are an adulterous wife who takes in strangers instead of her own husband.
Yes, you are an adulterous wife who takes in strangers instead of her own husband.
New Life Bible
You are like a wife who is not faithful and has strangers instead of her husband!
You are like a wife who is not faithful and has strangers instead of her husband!
New Revised Standard
Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A wife who committeth adultery, instead of her husband accepteth strangers.
A wife who committeth adultery, instead of her husband accepteth strangers.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But is an adulteress, that bringeth in strangers over her husband.
But is an adulteress, that bringeth in strangers over her husband.
Revised Standard Version
Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
Young's Literal Translation
The wife who committeth adultery -- Under her husband -- doth receive strangers.
The wife who committeth adultery -- Under her husband -- doth receive strangers.
THE MESSAGE
"‘Wives who are unfaithful to their husbands accept gifts from their lovers. And men commonly pay their whores. But you pay your lovers! You bribe men from all over to come to bed with you! You're just the opposite of the regular whores who get paid for sex. Instead, you pay men for their favors! You even pervert whoredom!
"‘Wives who are unfaithful to their husbands accept gifts from their lovers. And men commonly pay their whores. But you pay your lovers! You bribe men from all over to come to bed with you! You're just the opposite of the regular whores who get paid for sex. Instead, you pay men for their favors! You even pervert whoredom!
Contextual Overview
15 But you trusted in your beauty, and prostituted because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on every one that passed by, that it may be for him. 16 And you took of your garments, and made for yourself high places decked with diverse colors, and prostituted on them: [this] should not come, neither should it be [so]. 17 You also took your fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given to you, and made for yourself images of men, and prostituted with them; 18 and you took your embroidered garments, and covered them, and set my oil and my incense before them. 19 My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you even set it before them for a sweet savor; and [thus] it was, says the Lord Yahweh. 20 Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and these you have sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your prostitutions a small matter, 21 that you have slain my sons, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through [the fire] to them? 22 And in all your disgusting behaviors and your prostitutions you haven't remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were weltering in your blood. 23 And it has come to pass after all your wickedness, (woe, woe to you! says the Lord Yahweh,) 24 that you have built yourself a vaulted place, and have made yourself a lofty place in every street.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Ezekiel 16:8, Ezekiel 23:37, Ezekiel 23:45, Jeremiah 2:25, Jeremiah 2:28, Jeremiah 3:1, Jeremiah 3:8, Jeremiah 3:9, Jeremiah 3:20, Hosea 2:2, Hosea 3:1, 2 Corinthians 11:2, 2 Corinthians 11:3
Reciprocal: Genesis 39:7 - Lie Isaiah 57:8 - for John 4:18 - is not
Gill's Notes on the Bible
[But as] a wife that committeth adultery,.... Who has a husband, and is provided for with all the necessaries of life, with food and clothing; and so has no need to prostitute herself for a livelihood, as common strumpets do; but does it purely for the satiating of her lust: and such were the people of the Jews, they were married to the Lord, who took care of them, and provided everything for them, and acted the part of a husband to them; so that it was the weakness of their hearts, and the strength of their corruptions, which led them to depart from him, and commit idolatry; which in them was adultery, while the sin of the Gentiles was as simple fornication:
[which] taketh strangers instead of her husband; that takes other men into her bed instead of her husband, not for the sake of gain, but lust; and this was the case of the Jews, who were a wicked people, an idolatrous generation; who took strange gods to worship instead of the true God, who had been a husband to them, Jeremiah 31:32.
