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Joel 3:3

3 “They have also acast lots for My people,

1bTraded a boy for a harlot

And sold a girl for wine that they may drink.

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Joel 3:3 — The New International Version (NIV)

They cast lots for my people

and traded boys for prostitutes;

they sold girls for wine to drink.

Joel 3:3 — English Standard Version (ESV)

and have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.

Joel 3:3 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

And they have cast lots for my people;

And have given a boy for an harlot,

And sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

Joel 3:3 — New Living Translation (NLT)

They threw dice to decide which of my people

would be their slaves.

They traded boys to obtain prostitutes

and sold girls for enough wine to get drunk.

Joel 3:3 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

They have cast lots for My people,

Have given a boy as payment for a harlot,

And sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

Joel 3:3 — New Century Version (NCV)

and threw lots for my people.

They traded boys for prostitutes,

and they sold girls to buy wine to drink.

Joel 3:3 — American Standard Version (ASV)

and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

Joel 3:3 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

and they have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, and have drunk it.

Joel 3:3 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

They threw dice for my people. 

They traded boys for prostitutes. 

They sold girls so that they could buy wine to drink. 

Joel 3:3 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

They cast lots for My people;

they bartered a boy for a prostitute

and sold a girl for wine to drink.

Joel 3:3 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

and cast lots for my people, and traded boys for prostitutes, and sold girls for wine, and drunk it down.

Joel 3:3 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

For my people they cast lots, and they traded the male child for the prostitute, and the female child they sold for wine and they drank it.

Joel 3:3 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

They cast lots for my people.

They sold boys into slavery to get prostitutes.

They sold girls to buy some wine to drink.


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