“I have peace offerings with me; Today I have paid my vows.
Parallel translations
- WEB “Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows.
- KJV I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
- BSB “I have made my peace offerings; today I have paid my vows.
- NASB “I was due to offer peace offerings; Today I have paid my vows.
- NLT “I’ve just made my peace offerings and fulfilled my vows.
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Quick answer
She claims to have fulfilled her religious vows, cloaking her seduction in piety. Sin can wear a religious disguise.
Overview
She mentions peace offerings and paid vows, perhaps implying fresh meat for a feast and a veneer of devotion. Her use of religious language to advance immorality exposes the hypocrisy that often accompanies sin. The verse warns that outward piety can mask a corrupt purpose.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Prov 21:27The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!
- Lev 7:11“‘This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which one shall offer to Yahweh.
- Deut 12:6–7There you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, your vows, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.
- Prov 15:8The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
- John 18:28They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
- Prov 17:1Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.
- 1 Kgs 21:9–10She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
- 2 Sam 15:7–9At the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.
- Lev 7:15–16The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning.
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