Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

I write for him myriads of my instruction; they are regarded as a strange thing.

New American Standard Bible

Though I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My law,
They are regarded as a strange thing.

King James Version

I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

Holman Bible

Though I were to write out for him
ten thousand points of My instruction,
they would be regarded as something strange.

International Standard Version

I prescribed great things from my Law for them, but they considered them profane.

A Conservative Version

I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law, but they are counted as a strange thing.

American Standard Version

I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange thing.

Amplified


I wrote for him the ten thousand precepts of My law,
But they are regarded as a strange thing [which does not concern him].

Bible in Basic English

Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.

Darby Translation

I have prescribed unto him the manifold things of my law: they are counted as a strange thing.

Julia Smith Translation

I will write to him his multitude of my instructions; they were reckoned as a strange thing.

King James 2000

I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

Modern King James verseion

I have written to him the great things of My Law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Though I show them my law never so much, they count it but strange doctrine.

NET Bible

I spelled out my law for him in great detail, but they regard it as something totally unknown to them!

New Heart English Bible

I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing.

The Emphasized Bible

I have been wont to write for him the myriad things of my law, - Like something alien, have they been accounted.

Webster

I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

World English Bible

I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing.

Youngs Literal Translation

I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
כּתב 
Kathab 
Usage: 223

of my law
תּרה תּורה 
Towrah 
law
Usage: 219

References

Context Readings

Israel Rejects The Good

11 When Ephraim multiplied altars to expiate sins, they became to him altars to sin [on]. 12 I write for him myriads of my instruction; they are regarded as a strange thing. 13 They offer sacrifices of my choice and they eat flesh; Yahweh does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they will return [to] Egypt.

Cross References

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from acting as a priest for me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

Deuteronomy 4:6-8

And {you must observe them diligently}, for that [is] your wisdom and your insight before the eyes of the people, who will hear all [of] these rules, and they will say, 'Surely this great nation [is] a wise and discerning people.'

2 Kings 17:15-16

They rejected his statutes, his covenant which he {made} with their ancestors, and his warnings which he gave to them; and they went after the idols, became vain, and [went] after all the nations which [were] all around them, which Yahweh had commanded them not to do as they [did].

Nehemiah 9:13-14

Then you came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right judgments and true teachings, good regulations and commandments.

Nehemiah 9:26

"But they rebelled and were rebellious against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them to turn back to you, and they did great blasphemies.

Psalm 50:17

while you yourself hate discipline, and cast my words behind you?

Psalm 119:18

Uncover my eyes, that I may look at wonderful things from your law.

Psalm 147:19-20

[He] declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

Proverbs 22:20

Have I not written for you thirty [sayings] with admonitions and knowledge?

Isaiah 30:9

For it [is] a people of rebellion, deceitful children, children [who are] not willing to hear the instruction of Yahweh,

Jeremiah 6:16-17

Thus says Yahweh: "Stand at [the] roads and look, and ask for [the] ancient paths, where the way of the good [is], and walk in it, and find rest for your inner selves. But they said, 'We will not walk [in it].'

Ezekiel 20:11

and I gave my statutes to them, and my regulations I made known to them, which, if a person does them, then he will live by them.

Romans 3:1

Therefore, what [is] the advantage of the Jew, or what [is] the use of circumcision?

Romans 7:12

So then, the law [is] holy, and the commandment [is] holy and righteous and good.

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