"Therefore say to the house of Israel: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your ancestors did and lust after their vile images?"
NIV
Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: Do you [exiles] debase and defile yourselves after the manner of your fathers? And do you play the harlot after their loathsome and detestable things?
AMP
Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations?
KJV
These are the family heads and those registered with them who came up with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes:
NIV
THESE ARE the heads of their fathers' houses and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylonia in the reign of King Artaxerxes:
AMP
These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.
KJV
The terms I commanded your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the iron-smelting furnace.' I said, 'Obey me and do everything I command you, and you will be my people, and I will be your God.
NIV
Which I commanded your fathers at the time that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Listen to My voice and do according to all that I command you. So will you be My people, and I will be your God
AMP
Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:
KJV
The people from Benjamin, as listed in their genealogy, numbered 956. All these men were heads of their families.
NIV
And their kinsmen, according to their generations, 956. All these were heads of fathers' houses according to their fathers' houses.
AMP
And their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty and six. All these men were chief of the fathers in the house of their fathers.
KJV
From the time I brought your ancestors up from Egypt until today, I warned them again and again, saying, "Obey me."
NIV
For I earnestly protested to and warned your fathers at the time that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, protesting to and warning them persistently, saying, Obey My voice.
AMP
For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
KJV
"Then I will fulfill the oath I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey' – the land you possess today." I answered, "Amen, LORD."
NIV
That I may perform the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then I answered, Amen (so be it), O Lord.
AMP
That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
KJV
