Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

Thy first father sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.

New American Standard Bible

“Your first forefather sinned,
And your spokesmen have transgressed against Me.

King James Version

Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.

Holman Bible

Your first father sinned,
and your mediators have rebelled against Me.

International Standard Version

Your first ancestor sinned, and your mediators rebelled against me.

American Standard Version

Thy first father sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.

Amplified


“Your first father [Jacob] sinned,
And your spokesmen [the priests and the prophets—your mediators] have transgressed against Me.

Bible in Basic English

Your first father was a sinner, and your guides have gone against my word.

Darby Translation

Thy first father hath sinned, and thy mediators have rebelled against me.

Julia Smith Translation

Thy first father slimed, thy interpreter transgressed against me.

King James 2000

Your first father has sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Your first ancestor sinned, and your {representatives} transgressed against me.

Modern King James verseion

Your first father has sinned, and your teachers have sinned against Me.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thy first father offended sore, and thy rulers have sinned against me.

NET Bible

The father of your nation sinned; your spokesmen rebelled against me.

New Heart English Bible

Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.

The Emphasized Bible

Thy chief father, hath sinned, And thine interpreters, have transgressed against me;

Webster

Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.

World English Bible

Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.

Youngs Literal Translation

Thy first father sinned, And thine interpreters transgressed against me,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ראשׁן ראשׁון 
Ri'shown 
Usage: 182

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Despite The People Of Israel's Past Sin, The Lord Will Forgive Them

26 Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Set thou forth [thy case] that thou may be justified. 27 Thy first father sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me. 28 Therefore I will profane the rulers of the sanctuary, and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling.



Cross References

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means. And my people love to have it so. And what will ye do in the end thereof?

Isaiah 28:7

And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up of wine. They stagger with strong drink; they err in vision; they stumble in judgment.

Ezekiel 16:3

and say, Thus says lord LORD to Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy nativity is from the land of the Canaanite. The Amorite was thy father, and thy mother was a Hittite.

Numbers 32:14

And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of LORD toward Israel.

Psalm 78:8

and might not be as their fathers: a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

Psalm 106:6-7

We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. we have done wickedly.

Isaiah 3:12

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, those who lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

Isaiah 9:15

The elder and the honorable man, he is the head. And the prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.

Isaiah 56:10-12

His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They cannot bark, dreaming, laying down, loving to slumber.

Jeremiah 23:11-15

For both prophet and priest are profane. Yea, in my house I have found their wickedness, says LORD.

Lamentations 4:13-14

[It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.

Ezekiel 22:25-28

There is a conspiracy by her prophets in the midst of it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made her widows many in the midst thereof.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because thou have rejected knowledge, I also will reject thee, that thou shall be no priest to me. Since thou have forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy sons.

Micah 3:11

The heads of it judge for a bribe, and the priests of it teach for a wage, and the prophets of it divine for money. Yet they lean upon LORD, and say, Is not LORD in the midst of us? No evil shall come upon us.

Zechariah 1:4-6

Be ye not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus says LORD of hosts: Return ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings, but they did not hear, nor hearken to me, says LORD.

Malachi 2:4-8

And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi, says LORD of hosts.

Malachi 3:7

From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says LORD of hosts. But ye say, How shall we return?

Matthew 15:14

Leave them. They are blind leaders of blind men, and if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a ditch.

Matthew 27:1

But having become morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people held consultation against Jesus in order to condemn him to death.

Matthew 27:41

And likewise also the chief priests, ridiculing with the scholars, and elders, and Pharisees, said,

John 11:49-53

And a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, Ye know nothing at all,

Acts 5:17-18

But after rising up, the high priest and all those with him (being the sect of the Sadducees) were filled of envy.

Acts 7:51

Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers, ye also.

Romans 5:12

Because of this, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, so also death passed to all men, in that all sinned.

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