¹⁶The Lord said to Moses, “You are about to rest with your ancestors,^c and these people will soon prostitute themselves with the foreign gods^d of the land they are entering. They will abandon me^e and break the covenant^f I have made with them.

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Cross references

c Gn 47:30; 2Sm 7:12; 1Kg 2:10; 11:43; 14:20,31
d Jr 5:7; 7:9; Hs 3:1
e Dt 28:20; Jdg 10:13; 1Sm 8:8; 1Kg 11:33; 2Kg 22:17; Jr 1:16; 2:13; 5:7,19; 16:11; 19:4
f Dt 4:13,23; 5:2–3; 17:2; 29:1,9–14,21,25

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

And the Lord said to Moses: “You are going to rest with your ancestors, and these people will soon prostitute themselves to the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake me and break the covenant I made with them.

NLTNew Living Translation

The Lord said to Moses, “You are about to die and join your ancestors. After you are gone, these people will begin to worship foreign gods, the gods of the land where they are going. They will abandon me and break my covenant that I have made with them.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And Yahweh said to Moses, “Look, you are about to lie down with your ancestors, and this people will arise and they will play the prostitute after the foreign gods of the land to which they are going.

KJV 1900King James Version

And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

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