Deuteronomy 23:6
Modern Translations
New International Version
Do not seek a treaty of friendship with them as long as you live.

New Living Translation
As long as you live, you must never promote the welfare and prosperity of the Ammonites or Moabites.

English Standard Version
You shall not seek their peace or their prosperity all your days forever.

Berean Study Bible
You are not to seek peace or prosperity from them as long as you live.

New American Standard Bible
You shall never seek their peace or their prosperity all your days.

NASB 1995
"You shall never seek their peace or their prosperity all your days.

NASB 1977
“You shall never seek their peace or their prosperity all your days.

Amplified Bible
You shall never seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days.

Christian Standard Bible
Never pursue their welfare or prosperity as long as you live.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Never seek their peace or prosperity as long as you live.

Contemporary English Version
Don't even think of signing a peace treaty with Moab or Ammon.

Good News Translation
As long as you are a nation, never do anything to help these nations or to make them prosperous.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Never offer them peace or friendship as long as you live.

International Standard Version
Don't seek a peace treaty with them as long as you live.

NET Bible
You must not seek peace and prosperity for them through all the ages to come.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

New King James Version
You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

King James 2000 Bible
You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

New Heart English Bible
You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

World English Bible
You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

American King James Version
You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days for ever.

American Standard Version
Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

A Faithful Version
You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

Darby Bible Translation
Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

English Revised Version
Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt not seek their peace, nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Thou shalt not seeke their peace nor their prosperitie all thy dayes for euer.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Thou shalt not seeke their peace nor wealth all thy dayes, for euer.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Thou shalt wysh him nether prosperite ner health all thy life longe for euer.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
Thou shalt neuer therfore seke that which is prosperouse or good for them all thy dayes for euer.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
you do not seek their peace and their good all your days—for all time.

Young's Literal Translation
thou dost not seek their peace and their good all thy days -- to the age.

Smith's Literal Translation
Thou shalt not seek their peace and their good all thy days to forever.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not make peace with them, neither shalt thou seek their prosperity all the days of thy life for ever.

Catholic Public Domain Version
You shall not make peace with them, nor shall you seek their prosperity, throughout all the days of your life forever.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Do not desire their peace and their good all the days of your life, forever.

Lamsa Bible
You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all the days of your life for ever.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thou shalt not speak peaceably or profitably to them all thy days for ever.
















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