Parallel Verses
Webster
Thou shalt not seek their peace, nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
New American Standard Bible
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You shall not promote their welfare or 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.
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.
Themes
Ammonites » Excluded from the congregation of israel
the Ammonites » Jewish laws respecting » No covenant to made with
Inhospitableness » Instances of » Toward the israelites » Ammonites and moabites
Interlinear
Shalowm
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 23:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity
5 Nevertheless, the LORD thy God would not hearken to Balaam: but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing to thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee. 6 Thou shalt not seek their peace, nor their prosperity all thy days for ever. 7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.
Cross References
Ezra 9:12
Now therefore give not your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.
2 Samuel 8:2
And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines he measured to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.
2 Samuel 12:31
And he brought forth the people that were in it, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick-kiln: and thus he did to all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 13:23-25
In those days also I saw Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab: