Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land;
New American Standard Bible
For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to
King James Version
And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
Holman Bible
The house of Israel will spend seven months burying them in order to cleanse the land.
International Standard Version
The house of Israel will be burying them for seven months in order to purify the land.
A Conservative Version
And the house of Israel shall be burying them seven months, that they may cleanse the land.
American Standard Version
And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land.
Amplified
For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.
Bible in Basic English
And the children of Israel will be seven months putting them in the earth, so as to make the land clean.
Julia Smith Translation
And the house of Israel buried them to cleanse the land seven months.
King James 2000
And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the house of Israel will bury them for seven months to cleanse the land.
Modern King James verseion
And the house of Israel shall bury them, to cleanse the land, seven months.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Seven months long shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
NET Bible
For seven months Israel will bury them, in order to cleanse the land.
New Heart English Bible
Seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land.
The Emphasized Bible
So shall the house of Israel bury them hat they may cleanse the land, - seven months;
Webster
And seven months shall the house of Israel be in burying them, that they may cleanse the land.
World English Bible
Seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land.
Youngs Literal Translation
And the house of Israel have buried them -- in order to cleanse the land -- seven months.
Themes
Burial » Of enemies, sometimes performed by the conquerors
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 39:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Destruction Of Gog And His Hordes
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there for burial in Israel, the valley of the passers-by to the east of the sea; and it shall stop the way of the passers-by; and there shall they bury Gog and all the multitude; and they shall call it, Valley of Hamon-Gog. 12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land; 13 and all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them for renown in the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord Jehovah.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 21:23
his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day (for he that is hanged is a curse of God); and thou shalt not defile thy land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
Ezekiel 39:14
And they shall sever out men of continual employment to go through the land, who, with the passers-by, shall bury those that remain upon the face of the land, to cleanse it: at the end of seven months shall they make a search.
Ezekiel 39:16
And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
Numbers 19:16
And every one that toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead person, or the bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.