They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,
Parallel translations
- KJV They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
- BSB Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,
- NKJV They were not deprived of their craving; But while their food was still in their mouths,
- NASB Yet before they had abandoned their longing, While their food was in their mouths,
- NLT But before they satisfied their craving, while the meat was yet in their mouths,
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Cross-references · 4
- Num 11:33–34While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, Yahweh’s anger burned against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.
- Num 22:20–22God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that you shall do.”
- Prov 1:32For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.
- Luke 16:19–23“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
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