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Bible in Basic English

For they sent for the people to be present at the offerings made to their gods; and the people took part in their feasts and gave honour to their gods.

New American Standard Bible

For they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

King James Version

And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.

Holman Bible

The women invited them to the sacrifices for their gods, and the people ate and bowed in worship to their gods.

International Standard Version

who also invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods. So the people ate what they had sacrificed and then worshipped their gods.

A Conservative Version

for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. And the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.

American Standard Version

for they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods; and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.

Amplified

For they invited the Israelites to the sacrifices of their gods, and the Israelites ate [food offered to idols] and bowed down to Moab’s gods.

Darby Translation

And they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.

Julia Smith Translation

And she called the people to the sacrifices of their God: and the people will eat and will worship to their God.

King James 2000

And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and worshiped their gods.

Modern King James verseion

And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

which called the people unto the sacrifice of their gods. And the people ate, and worshipped their gods,

NET Bible

These women invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods; then the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

New Heart English Bible

for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.

The Emphasized Bible

who invited the people unto the sacrifices of their gods, - so the people did eat, and did bow themselves down unto their gods.

Webster

And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods: and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.

World English Bible

for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.

Youngs Literal Translation

and they call for the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people eat, and bow themselves to their gods,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And they called
קרא 
Qara' 
Usage: 736

the people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

זבח 
Zebach 
Usage: 162

of their gods
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

and the people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

and bowed down
שׁחה 
Shachah 
Usage: 171

Context Readings

The Plague Of Israel

1 Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab: 2 For they sent for the people to be present at the offerings made to their gods; and the people took part in their feasts and gave honour to their gods. 3 So Israel had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor: and the Lord was moved to wrath against Israel.


Cross References

1 Corinthians 10:20

What I say is that the things offered by the Gentiles are offered to evil spirits and not to God; and it is not my desire for you to have any part with evil spirits.

Exodus 20:5

You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

Exodus 34:15-16

So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,

Joshua 22:17

Was not the sin of Baal-peor great enough, from which we are not clear even to this day, though punishment came on the people of the Lord,

1 Kings 11:1-8

Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:

Psalm 106:28

And they were joined to Baal-peor, and took part in the offerings to the dead.

Hosea 9:10

I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love.

Exodus 23:24

Do not go down on your faces and give worship to their gods, or do as they do; but overcome them completely, and let their pillars be broken down.

Deuteronomy 32:38

Who took the fat of their offerings, and the wine of their drink offering? Let them now come to your help, let them be your salvation.

Joshua 23:7

Have nothing to do with these nations who still are living among you; let not their gods be named by you or used in your oaths; do not be their servants or give them worship:

Joshua 23:16

If the agreement of the Lord your God, which was given to you by his orders, is broken, and you become the servants of other gods and give them worship, then the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, and you will quickly be cut off from the good land which he has given you.

1 Kings 19:18

But I will keep safe seven thousand in Israel, all those whose knees have not been bent to Baal, and whose mouths have given him no kisses.

1 Corinthians 10:27-28

If a Gentile makes a feast for you, and you are pleased to go as a guest, take whatever is put before you, without question of right or wrong.

2 Corinthians 6:16-17

And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Revelation 2:14

But I have some things against you, because you have with you those who keep the teaching of Balaam, by whose suggestion Balak made the children of Israel go out of the right way, taking food which was offered to false gods, and going after the desires of the flesh.

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