Ezekiel 16:32
Modern Translations
New International Version
"'You adulterous wife! You prefer strangers to your own husband!

New Living Translation
Yes, you are an adulterous wife who takes in strangers instead of her own husband.

English Standard Version
Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!

Berean Study Bible
You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband!

New American Standard Bible
You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

NASB 1995
"You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

NASB 1977
“You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

Amplified Bible
You adulterous wife, who welcomes and receives strangers instead of her husband!

Christian Standard Bible
You adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!

Contemporary English Version
You are nothing but an unfaithful wife who would rather have sex with strangers than with your own husband.

Good News Translation
You are like a woman who commits adultery with strangers instead of loving her husband.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You are an adulterous wife who prefers strangers to her husband.

International Standard Version
who commits adultery, preferring a stranger over her husband!

NET Bible
"'Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!
Classic Translations
King James Bible
But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!

New King James Version
You are an adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband.

King James 2000 Bible
But as a wife that commits adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

New Heart English Bible
"'A wife who commits adultery. who takes strangers instead of her husband.

World English Bible
A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!

American King James Version
But as a wife that commits adultery, which takes strangers instead of her husband!

American Standard Version
A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband!

A Faithful Version
You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her own husband!

Darby Bible Translation
O adulterous wife, that taketh strangers instead of her husband.

English Revised Version
A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband!

Webster's Bible Translation
But as a wife that committeth adultery, who taketh strangers instead of her husband!

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
But as a wife that playeth the harlot, and taketh others for her husband:

Bishops' Bible of 1568
But as a wyfe that breaketh wedlocke, and taketh other in steede of her husbande.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
but as a wife yt breaketh wedlocke, & taketh other in steade of hir husbode.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
The wife who commits adultery—Under her husband—receives strangers.

Young's Literal Translation
The wife who committeth adultery -- Under her husband -- doth receive strangers.

Smith's Literal Translation
The wife committing adultery, instead of her husband she will take strangers.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
But as an adulteress, that bringeth in strangers over her husband.

Catholic Public Domain Version
but instead like a woman who is an adulteress, who prefers strangers to her own husband.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Neither as the wife of a man who is an adulteress, who receives from strangers

Lamsa Bible
And even not as clever as a whorish wife who takes a price from strangers.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Thou wife that committest adultery, that takest strangers instead of thy husband--

Brenton Septuagint Translation
An adulteress resembles thee, taking rewards of her husband.
















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