Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

You shall not promote their welfare or their prosperity all your days {forever}.

New American Standard Bible

You shall never seek their peace or their prosperity all your days.

King James Version

Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

Holman Bible

Never seek their peace or prosperity as long as you live.

International Standard Version

Don't seek a peace treaty with them as long as you live.

A Conservative Version

Thou shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days forever.

American Standard Version

Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

Amplified

You shall never seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days.

Bible in Basic English

Do nothing for their peace or well-being for ever.

Darby Translation

Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

Julia Smith Translation

Thou shalt not seek their peace and their good all thy days to forever.

King James 2000

You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

Modern King James verseion

You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou shalt never, therefore, seek that which is prosperous or good for them all thy days forever.

NET Bible

You must not seek peace and prosperity for them through all the ages to come.

New Heart English Bible

You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

The Emphasized Bible

Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their welfare, - all thy days, unto times age-abiding.

Webster

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

thou dost not seek their peace and their good all thy days -- to the age.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Thou shalt not seek
דּרשׁ 
Darash 
Usage: 164

שׁלם שׁלום 
Shalowm 
Usage: 236

יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

References

Context Readings

Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity

5 But Yahweh your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, and Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because Yahweh your God loved you. 6 You shall not promote their welfare or their prosperity all your days {forever}. 7 "You shall not abhor an Edomite, because he [is] your brother; you shall not abhor an Egyptian because you were an alien in his land.



Cross References

Ezra 9:12

Therefore, do not give your daughters to their sons, and do not take their daughters for your sons. Do not seek their peace and prosperity so that forever you may be strong and eat the good of the land and may give it as an inheritance to your sons.'

2 Samuel 8:2

When he defeated Moab, he measured them with the cord, making them lie on the ground. He measured two cords to kill and {the third cord} to let live. So Moab became servants of David, bringing tribute.

2 Samuel 12:31

He also brought out the people who [were] in it and put them to the saws and to the iron picks and to the iron axes, and he sent them to the place of the brickmakers. Thus he used to do to all the cities of the {Ammonites}, and he and all of the army returned to Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 13:23-25

Also in those days I saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

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