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And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity [is] of the land of Canaan; thy father [was] an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.

And say {H559}, Thus saith {H559} the Lord {H136} GOD {H3069} unto Jerusalem {H3389}; Thy birth {H4351} and thy nativity {H4138} is of the land {H776} of Canaan {H3669}; thy father {H1} was an Amorite {H567}, and thy mother {H517} an Hittite {H2850}.

Say that Adonai ELOHIM is telling Yerushalayim, 'By origin and birth you are of the land of the Kena'ani - your father was an Emori, and your mother was a Hitti.

and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was thy father, and thy mother was a Hittite.

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Cross-References

  • Ezekiel 16:45 (9 votes)

    Thou [art] thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou [art] the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother [was] an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

  • Isaiah 51:1 (7 votes)

    ¶ Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock [whence] ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit [whence] ye are digged.

  • Isaiah 51:2 (7 votes)

    Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah [that] bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

  • Deuteronomy 20:17 (6 votes)

    But thou shalt utterly destroy them; [namely], the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:

  • Nehemiah 9:7 (5 votes)

    Thou [art] the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;

  • John 8:44 (5 votes)

    Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

  • Ezekiel 21:30 (4 votes)

    Shall I cause [it] to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.