Joel 4:3

11 translations of 93 that include the Old Testament

Brenton English Septuagint

and cast lots over my people, and have given their boys to harlots, and sold their girls for wine, and have drunk.

Updated Brenton English Septuagint

and cast lots over my people, and have given their boys to harlots, and sold their girls for wine, and have drunk.

The Orthodox Jewish Bible - Tanakh and Orthodox Jewish Brit Chadasha - The Holy Bible

And they have cast lots for My people; and have traded the yeledim as barter for zonot, and sold the yaldah for yayin, that they might drink.

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Croatian Bible

Baciše ždrijeb za moj narod; davali su dječake za bludnice, djevojke prodavali za vino i pili.”

French: Bible J.N. Darby

et elles ont jeté le sort sur mon peuple, et ont donné le jeune garçon pour une prostituée, et ont vendu la jeune fille pour du vin, et elles l’ont bu.

German Textbibel

weil sie die Angehörigen meines Volkes verlosten, den Knaben für eine Hure hingaben und das Mädchen um Wein verhandelten und zechten.

SEPTUAGINTA

καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν λαόν μου ἔβαλον κλήρους καὶ ἔδωκαν τὰ παιδάρια πόρναις καὶ τὰ κοράσια ἐπώλουν ἀντὶ τοῦ οἴνου καὶ ἔπινον.

Brenton Septuagint

καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν λαόν μου ἔβαλον κλήρους, καὶ ἔδωκαν τὰ παιδάρια πόρναις, καὶ τὰ κοράσια ἐπώλουν ἀντὶ τοῦ οἴνου, καὶ ἔπινον.

Hebrew Masoretic OT

וְאֶל־עַמִּ֖י יַדּ֣וּ גֹורָ֑ל וַיִּתְּנ֤וּ הַיֶּ֙לֶד֙ בַּזֹּונָ֔ה וְהַיַּלְדָּ֛ה מָכְר֥וּ בַיַּ֖יִן וַיִּשְׁתּֽוּ׃

Mashi Bible

Abantu bâni babagabânyire, babayesha cigole, abanarha-bâna babahindula mbaraga, n’abâna-nyere bakaz’ibaguza mamvu bananywa.

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Hebrew OT (WLC)

וְאֶל־עַמִּ֖י יַדּ֣וּ גוֹרָ֑ל וַיִּתְּנ֤וּ הַיֶּ֨לֶד֙ בַּזּוֹנָ֔ה וְהַיַּלְדָּ֛ה מָכְר֥וּ בַיַּ֖יִן וַיִּשְׁתּֽוּ׃

Attribution

When was this written?

Traditions differ. Each position is shown rather than one asserted as settled.

Traditional: 835 BC–800 BC Joel
Placed early, among the ninth-century prophets.
Critical: 400 BC–350 BC Joel
No king is named and the temple is standing, which many read as post-exilic. Joel is the least securely dated book in the prophetic corpus.

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Elsewhere in the world

Events overlapping when this passage is dated (835 BC–350 BC).

1200 BC–400 BC Olmec civilisation Mesoamerica
The earliest major Mesoamerican civilisation, known for colossal stone heads and an early calendar.
1200 BC–600 BC Zoroaster teaches in Persia Persia
Founder of Zoroastrianism, whose dating is disputed by as much as six centuries. His teaching on a cosmic struggle between good and evil later touched Jewish and Christian thought.
1070 BC–350 AD The kingdom of Kush Africa
A Nubian power on the upper Nile that ruled Egypt itself as its twenty-fifth dynasty.
1050 BC–800 BC The Phoenician alphabet spreads Levant
A compact consonantal alphabet that became the ancestor of Greek, Latin and Hebrew scripts.
776 BC First recorded Olympiad Greece
The traditional starting point of Greek historical chronology.
753 BC Traditional founding of Rome Rome
The legendary date of Rome's founding, later used as the anchor of the Roman calendar.
745 BC–609 BC Neo-Assyrian empire at its height Mesopotamia
Assyria dominated the Near East, deporting conquered populations as policy, including the northern kingdom of Israel.
620 BC–560 BC Coinage invented in Lydia Anatolia
Stamped electrum coins of guaranteed weight, an idea that spread across the ancient world within a century.

Joel 4:3

Brenton English Septuagint ☆

Updated Brenton English Septuagint ☆

The Orthodox Jewish Bible - Tanakh and Orthodox Jewish Brit Chadasha - The Holy Bible ☆

Croatian Bible ☆

French: Bible J.N. Darby ☆

German Textbibel ☆

SEPTUAGINTA ☆

Brenton Septuagint ☆

Hebrew Masoretic OT ☆

Mashi Bible ☆

Hebrew OT (WLC) ☆