Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
Then I said to them, 'What does the high place where you go mean?' So its name is called Bamah to this day."'
New American Standard Bible
Then I said to them, ‘What is the high place to which you go?’ So its name is called
King James Version
Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.
Holman Bible
So I asked them: What is this high place you are going to? And it is called High Place to this day.
International Standard Version
So I asked them, "What is the high place to which you're going?' That's why the name of the place has been called Bamah to this day."'
A Conservative Version
Then I said to them, What does the high place to which ye go mean? So the name of it is called Bamah to this day.
American Standard Version
Then I said unto them, What meaneth the high place whereunto ye go? So the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.
Amplified
Then I said to them, ‘What is the high place to which you go?’ So the name of it is called Bamah (High Place) to this day.”’
Bible in Basic English
Then I said to them, What is this high place where you go to no purpose? And it is named Bamah to this day.
Darby Translation
And I said unto them, What is the high place whither ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.
Julia Smith Translation
And saying to them, What the height where ye go there? And its name will be called Height, even to this day.
King James 2000
Then I said unto them, What is the high place to which you go? And its name is called Bamah unto this day.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And I said to them, 'What [is] the high place to which you are going?' And {it is called} Bamah until this day.
Modern King James verseion
And I said to them, What is the high place to which you go? And the name of it is called High Place to this day.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Then I ask them, 'What is that hill altar that you go to it?' And therefore is it called Bamah unto this day.
NET Bible
So I said to them, What is this high place you go to?'" (So it is called "High Place" to this day.)
The Emphasized Bible
Therefore said I unto them, What! a high-place, whereinto ye are entering, And so the name thereof hath been called High-place, unto this day.
Webster
Then I said to them, What is the high place to which ye go? and its name is called Bamah to this day.
World English Bible
Then I said to them, What does the high place where you go mean? So its name is called Bamah to this day.
Youngs Literal Translation
And I say unto them: What is the high place whither ye are going in? And its name is called 'high place' to this day.
Interlinear
Qara'
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 20:29
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Dealings With Israel For His Name's Sake
28 For when I had brought them into the land, which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there also they made their pleasant aroma, and they poured out there their drink offerings. 29 Then I said to them, 'What does the high place where you go mean?' So its name is called Bamah to this day."' 30 "Therefore tell the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Do you pollute yourselves in the way of your fathers? And do you play the prostitute after their abominations?
Cross References
Ezekiel 16:24-25
that you have built for yourselves a vaulted place, and have made yourselves a lofty place in every street.
Ezekiel 16:31
in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.