Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
All these burn in adultery, as it were an oven that the baker heateth when he hath left kneading, till the dough be leavened.
New American Standard Bible
Like an oven heated by the baker
Who ceases to stir up the fire
From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
King James Version
They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
Holman Bible
they are like an oven heated by a baker
who stops stirring the fire
from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
International Standard Version
All of them are adulterers they burn like an oven prepared by the baker, who has ceased stoking it until the dough is leavened.
A Conservative Version
They are all adulterers. They are as an oven heated by the baker. He ceases to stir [the fire], from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.
American Standard Version
They are all adulterers; they are as an oven heated by the baker; he ceaseth to stir the fire , from the kneading of the dough, until it be leavened.
Amplified
They are all adulterers;
Like the heat of an oven
When the baker ceases to stir the fire, [their passion smolders]
From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
Bible in Basic English
They are all untrue; they are like a burning oven; the bread-maker does not make up the fire from the time when the paste is mixed till it is leavened.
Darby Translation
They all practise adultery, as an oven heated by the baker: he ceaseth from stirring the fire after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
Julia Smith Translation
All of them committing adultery, as an oven set on fire from baking; he will cease from raising from kneading the dough till its leavening.
King James 2000
They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceases to stir the fire after he has kneaded the dough, until it is leavened.
Lexham Expanded Bible
All of them commit adultery, like a burning oven whose baker has stopped from stirring the fire, and from kneading [the] dough until it is leavened.
Modern King James verseion
They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker; he stops stirring, from kneading the dough, while it is leavened.
NET Bible
They are all like bakers, they are like a smoldering oven; they are like a baker who does not stoke the fire until the kneaded dough is ready for baking.
New Heart English Bible
They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.
The Emphasized Bible
They all, are adulterers, like an oven too hot for the baker, - who leaveth off stoking, after kneading the dough, till the whole be leavened.
Webster
They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it is leavened.
World English Bible
They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.
Youngs Literal Translation
All of them are adulterers, Like a burning oven of a baker, He ceaseth from stirring up after kneading the dough, till its leavening.
Themes
Adultery » Instances of » israelites
Arts and crafts » Names of various » Bakers
Bread » How prepared » Kneaded
Bread » How prepared » Baked in ovens
Bread » Kinds of » Leavened (made with yeast)
Furnace » Figurative » Of lust
Topics
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Ba`ar
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 7:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Ephraim's Guilt
3 They make the king and the princes, to have pleasure in their wickedness and lies. 4 All these burn in adultery, as it were an oven that the baker heateth when he hath left kneading, till the dough be leavened. 5 Even so goeth it this day with our kings and princes, for they begin to be wood drunken through wine: they use familiarity with such as deceive them.
Cross References
Jeremiah 9:2
Would God that I had a cottage somewhere far from folk, that I might leave my people, and go from them: for they be all adulterers and a shrinking sort.
Jeremiah 5:7-8
"Should I then, for all this, have mercy upon thee? Thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods. And albeit they were bound to me in marriage, yet they fell to adultery, and hunted harlots' houses.
Hosea 4:2
but swearing, lying, manslaughter, theft, and adultery have gotten the overhand; and one bloodguiltiness followeth another.
Hosea 4:12
My people ask counsel at their stocks, their staff must tell them. For a whorish mind hath deceived them, so that they commit fornication against their God.
Hosea 7:6-7
They with the imagination of their heart are like an oven, their sleep is all night like the sleep of a baker, in the morning is he as hot as the flame of fire:
James 4:4
Ye adulterers, and women that break matrimony: know ye not how that the friendship of the world is enmity to Godward? Whosoever will be friend of the world, is made the enemy of God.