Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

Casting dice settles a dispute, deciding between strong contenders.

New American Standard Bible

The cast lot puts an end to strife
And decides between the mighty ones.

King James Version

The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.

Holman Bible

Casting the lot ends quarrels
and separates powerful opponents.

A Conservative Version

The lot causes contentions to cease, and decides between the mighty.

American Standard Version

The lot causeth contentions to cease, And parteth between the mighty.

Amplified


To cast lots puts an end to quarrels
And decides between powerful contenders.

Bible in Basic English

The decision of chance puts an end to argument, parting the strong.

Darby Translation

The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.

Julia Smith Translation

The lot will cause contentions to cease, and will separate between the strong,

King James 2000

The lot causes contentions to cease, and decides between the mighty.

Lexham Expanded Bible

The lot will put an end to disputes, and between powerful contenders it will decide.

Modern King James verseion

The lot causes arguments to cease, and divides between the mighty.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The lot pacifieth the variance, and parteth the mighty asunder.

NET Bible

A toss of a coin ends disputes, and settles the issue between strong opponents.

New Heart English Bible

The lot settles disputes, and keeps strong ones apart.

The Emphasized Bible

The lot causeth, contentions, to cease, and, the mighty, it parteth.

Webster

The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.

World English Bible

The lot settles disputes, and keeps strong ones apart.

Youngs Literal Translation

The lot causeth contentions to cease, And between the mighty it separateth.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
גּרל גּורל 
Gowral 
lot
Usage: 77

מדין 
Midyan 
Usage: 9

to cease
שׁבת 
Shabath 
Usage: 71

References

Context Readings

How To Avoid Fools And Foolishness

17 The first to put forth his case seems right, until someone else steps forward and cross-examines him. 18 Casting dice settles a dispute, deciding between strong contenders. 19 An offended brother is more unyielding than a fortified city, and his disputes are like the bars of a fortress.

Cross References

Proverbs 16:33

The dice is cast into someone's lap, but the outcome is from the LORD.

Joshua 14:2

by lot, just as the LORD commanded through Moses for the nine tribes and the half-tribe,

1 Samuel 10:21-27

Then he brought forward the tribe of Benjamin according to its families, and the family of Matri was chosen. Finally, Kish's son Saul was chosen, but when they looked for him, they couldn't find him.

1 Samuel 14:42

Saul said, "Cast lots between me and my son Jonathan," and Jonathan was selected.

1 Chronicles 6:63

The descendants of Merari were allotted 12 towns according to their families from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.

1 Chronicles 24:31

These individuals also cast lots corresponding to their relatives, Aaron's descendants, in the presence of King David, Zadok, and Ahimelech, and in the presence of the heads of the ancestral households of the priests and of the descendants of Levi, and the eldest was treated as impartially as was the younger brother.

Nehemiah 11:1

The leaders of the people who lived in Jerusalem, along with the rest of the people, decided to choose one out of ten of them by lot to live in Jerusalem, the holy city, leaving the other nine of them in their towns.

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