Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And Israel will dwell in Shittim, and the people will begin to commit fornication with the daughters of Moab.
New American Standard Bible
While Israel remained at
King James Version
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
Holman Bible
While Israel was staying in the Acacia Grove,
International Standard Version
While Israel remained encamped in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality with Moabite women,
A Conservative Version
And Israel abode in Shittim. And the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab,
American Standard Version
And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab:
Amplified
Israel settled and remained in Shittim, and the people began to play the prostitute with the women of Moab [by being unfaithful to God].
Bible in Basic English
Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab:
Darby Translation
And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to commit fornication with the daughters of Moab.
King James 2000
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit harlotry with the daughters of Moab.
Lexham Expanded Bible
When Israel dwelled in Shittim, the people began to prostitute [themselves] with the daughters of Moab.
Modern King James verseion
And Israel lived in Shittim, and the people began to fornicate with the daughters of Moab.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And Israel dwelt in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab,
NET Bible
When Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab.
New Heart English Bible
Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab:
The Emphasized Bible
And Israel remained among the acacias, - and the people began to go away unchastely unto the daughters of Moab;
Webster
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit lewdness with the daughters of Moab.
World English Bible
Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab:
Youngs Literal Translation
And Israel dwelleth in Shittim, and the people begin to go a-whoring unto daughters of Moab,
Themes
Idolatry » Rites of, obscene and impure
Idolatry » Idols, &c mentioned in scripture » Baal-peor
Idolatry » The jews » Followed the moabites in
Midianites » With the moabites » Seduced israel to idolatry, &c
Miscegenation » Instances of » Israel
Moabites » Are a snare to the israelites
Moabites » israelites » Enticed to idolatry by
Shittim » Also called abel-shittim » A camping place of israel
Interlinear
Yashab
Chalal
References
American
Easton
Fausets
Hastings
Morish
Smith
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Numbers 25:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Plague Of Israel
1 And Israel will dwell in Shittim, and the people will begin to commit fornication with the daughters of Moab. 2 And she called the people to the sacrifices of their God: and the people will eat and will worship to their God.
Cross References
Joshua 2:1
And Joshua son of Nun will send out of Shittim two men spying silently, saying, Go see the land and Jericho. And they will go, and will come to the house of a woman, a harlot, and her name Rahab; and they will lie there.
Numbers 33:49
And they will encamp by Jordan, from the house of Jesimoth, to the meadow of acacias in the desert of Moab.
Micah 6:5
O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab counseled, and what Balaam son of Beor answered him from the acacias even to Gilgal; in order to know the justice of Jehovah.
1 Corinthians 10:8
Neither should we commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand.
Joshua 3:1
And Joshua will rise early in the morning; and they will remove from Shittim and they will come even to Jordan, he and all the sons of Israel, and they will pass the night there before they will pass over.
Numbers 31:15-16
And Moses will say to them, Preserved ye alive every female?
Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I find bitter above death the woman that her heart it is snares and nets, her hands are bonds: the good one before God shall escape from her, and he sinning shall be taken by her.
Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against thee, for thou hast there them holding the teaching of Balsam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.