Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And she answered him, "Nay, my brother, do not force me, for it ought not to be so in Israel. Do not this folly.
New American Standard Bible
But she answered him, “No, my brother, do not violate me, for
King James Version
And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.
Holman Bible
“Don’t, my brother!” she cried. “Don’t humiliate me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel.
International Standard Version
"No, my brother!" she kept telling him. "Don't humiliate me like this! This just isn't done in Israel! Don't do this utterly foolish thing!
A Conservative Version
And she answered him, No, my brother, do not force me, for no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Do not do thou this folly.
American Standard Version
And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.
Amplified
She replied, “No, my brother! Do not violate me, for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this disgraceful thing!
Bible in Basic English
And answering him, she said, O my brother, do not put shame on me; it is not right for such a thing to be done in Israel: do not this evil thing.
Darby Translation
And she said to him, No, my brother, do not humble me; for no such thing is done in Israel: do not this infamy.
Julia Smith Translation
And she will say to him, No, my brother, thou shalt not humble me; for so it shall not be done in Israel: thou shalt not do this folly.
King James 2000
And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not you this folly.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Then Tamar said to him, "No, my brother! Do not force me, for such a thing has not been done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing!
Modern King James verseion
And she answered him, No, my brother, do not humble me. For no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Do not do this folly.
NET Bible
But she said to him, "No, my brother! Don't humiliate me! This just isn't done in Israel! Don't do this foolish thing!
New Heart English Bible
She answered him, "No, my brother, do not force me. For no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Do not do this folly.
The Emphasized Bible
But she said to him - Nay! my brother, do not force me, for it should not be done so in Israel, - do not commit this vileness.
Webster
And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.
World English Bible
She answered him, "No, my brother, do not force me! For no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Don't you do this folly.
Youngs Literal Translation
And she saith to him, 'Nay, my brother, do not humble me, for it is not done so in Israel; do not this folly.
Themes
Adultery » Instances of » Amnon
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Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Samuel 13:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Amnon Assaults His Sister Tamar
11 and set them before him to eat. And he took her and said unto her, "Come, lie with me my sister." 12 And she answered him, "Nay, my brother, do not force me, for it ought not to be so in Israel. Do not this folly. 13 For whither shall I go with my shame? And thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. But speak unto the king, and he shall not deny me unto thee."
Phrases
Cross References
Leviticus 20:17
"'If a man take his sister, his father's daughter or his mother's daughter, and see her privities, and she see his privities also: it is a wicked thing. Therefore let them perish in the sight of their people; he hath seen his sister's secretness, he shall therefore bear his sin.
Judges 19:23
But the man of the house went out to them and said unto them, "Oh, nay my brethren, do not so wickedly seeing that this man is come into mine house: do not this folly.
Judges 20:6
And I took my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout all the lands of the inheritance of Israel. For they have committed abomination and folly in Israel.
Genesis 34:7
And the sons of Jacob came out of the field as soon as they heard it, for it grieved them, and they were not a little wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel, in that he had lain with Jacob's daughter, which thing ought not to be done.
Leviticus 18:9
Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy sister, the daughter of thy father or of thy mother: whether she be born at home or without.
Leviticus 18:11
Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy father's wife's daughter, which she bare to thy father, for she is thy sister: thou shalt therefore not uncover her privities.
Genesis 34:2
And Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, lord of the country, saw her, and took her, and lay with her, and forced her:
Deuteronomy 22:29
Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty sicles of silver. And she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her, and he may not put her away all his days.
Proverbs 5:22-23
The wickedness of the ungodly shall catch himself, and with the snares of his own sins shall he be trapped.
Proverbs 7:7
and beheld the simple people: and among other young folks I spied one young fool