Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.

New American Standard Bible

But like Adam they have transgressed the covenant;
There they have dealt treacherously against Me.

King James Version

But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

Holman Bible

But they, like Adam, have violated the covenant;
there they have betrayed Me.

International Standard Version

"But like Adam, they broke the covenant; in this they have acted deceitfully against me.

A Conservative Version

But like Adam they have transgressed the covenant. There they have dealt treacherously against me.

American Standard Version

But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

Amplified


But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant;
There they have dealt treacherously against Me.

Darby Translation

But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

Julia Smith Translation

And they as man passed by the covenant: there they acted faithlessly against me.

King James 2000

But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

Lexham Expanded Bible

But like Adam, they transgressed [the] covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.

Modern King James verseion

But, like Adam, they have broken the covenant. They have acted like traitors against Me there.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But even like as Adam did, so have they broken my covenant, and set me at naught.

NET Bible

At Adam they broke the covenant; Oh how they were unfaithful to me!

New Heart English Bible

But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.

The Emphasized Bible

But, they, like Adam, have transgressed a covenant, - There, have they dealt treacherously with me.

Webster

But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

World English Bible

But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.

Youngs Literal Translation

And they, as Adam, transgressed a covenant, There they dealt treacherously against me.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אדם 
'adam 
Usage: 541

עבר 
`abar 
over, pass, through, pass by, go, away, pass on,
Usage: 557

the covenant
בּרית 
B@riyth 
Usage: 284

References

American

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Watsons

Context Readings

A Call To Yahweh

6 Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings. 7 But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me. 8 Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood.

Cross References

Hosea 5:7

They have been false to the Lord; they have given birth to strange children; now the new moon will make them waste with their fields.

Hosea 8:1

Put the horn to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of the Lord; because they have gone against my agreement, they have not kept my law.

Genesis 3:11

And he said, Who gave you the knowledge that you were without clothing? Have you taken of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take?

Job 31:33

If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast,

Genesis 3:6

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.

2 Kings 17:15

And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do.

Isaiah 24:5

The earth has been made unclean by those living in it; because the laws have not been kept by them, the orders have been changed, and the eternal agreement has been broken.

Isaiah 24:16

From the farthest part of the earth comes the sound of songs, glory to the upright. But I said, I am wasting away, wasting away, the curse is on me! The false ones go on in their false way, yes, they go on acting falsely.

Isaiah 48:8

Truly you had no word of them, no knowledge of them; no news of them in the past had come to your ears; because I saw how false was your behaviour, and that your heart was turned against me from your earliest days.

Jeremiah 3:7

And I said, After she has done all these things she will come back to me; but she did not. And her false sister Judah saw it.

Jeremiah 5:11

For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:6

There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 31:32

Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; which agreement was broken by them, and I gave them up, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 16:59-61

For this is what the Lord has said: I will do to you as you have done, you who, putting the oath on one side, have let the agreement be broken.

Hebrews 8:9

Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand, to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; for they did not keep the agreement with me, and I gave them up, says the Lord.

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