Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”
Parallel translations
- KJV And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
- BSB and said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Put away your wine!”
- NKJV So Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Put your wine away from you!”
- NASB Then Eli said to her, “How long will you behave like a drunk? Get rid of your wine!”
- NLT “Must you come here drunk?” he demanded. “Throw away your wine!”
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Cross-references · 10
- Matt 7:1–3“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.
- Job 8:2“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
- Eph 4:25Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
- Job 11:14If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.
- Josh 22:12–20When the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against them to war.
- Job 22:23If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
- Prov 4:24Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.
- Eph 4:31Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.
- Prov 6:9How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
- Ps 62:3How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
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