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Hosea 11:2

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11:2But the more I summoned3 them,

the farther they departed from me.4

They sacrificed to the Baal idols

and burned incense to images.

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Footnotes

  1. 3 The reads קָרְאוּ (qar’u, “they called”; Qal perfect 3rd person common plural from קָרַא, qara’, “to call”), cf. , ; however, the and reflect כְּקָרְאִי (kéqar’i, “as I called”; preposition ךְּ (kaf) + Qal infinitive construct from קָרַא + 1st person common singular suffix). The presence of the resumptive adverb כֵּן (ken, “even so”) in the following clause supports the alternate textual tradition reflected in the and (cf. , , , , , ).
  2. 4 The reads מִפְּנֵיהֶם (mippénehem, “from them”; preposition + masculine plural noun + 3rd person masculine plural suffix), so , , ; however, the and reflect an alternate Hebrew textual tradition of מִפָּנַי הֵם (mippanay hem, “they [went away] from me”; preposition + masculine plural noun + 1st person common singular suffix, followed by 3rd person masculine plural independent personal pronoun); cf. , , . The textual variant was caused simply by faulty word division.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

The more they were called,

the more they went away;

they kept sacrificing to the Baals

and burning offerings to idols.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

But the more they were called,

the more they went away from me.

They sacrificed to the Baals

and they burned incense to images.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Israel called to the Egyptians

even as Israel was leaving them.

They kept sacrificing to the Baals

and burning offerings to idols.

NLTNew Living Translation

But the more I called to him,

the farther he moved from me,

offering sacrifices to the images of Baal

and burning incense to idols.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

When I called them, they went from my face.

They sacrificed to the Baals, and they sacrificed to idols.

KJV 1900King James Version

As they called them, so they went from them:

They sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.