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Keywords: COVETOUSNESS,CRAFTINESS,EXTORTION,WORLDLINESS
Description: Genesis 25:31
NET Translation: But Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”
DARBY Translation: And Jacob said, Sell me nowD213 thy birthright.
KJV Translation: And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
Keywords: CANAAN,EXTORTION,JOSEPH,USURPATION
Description: Genesis 47:13
NET Translation: But there was no food in all the land because the famine was very severe; the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan wasted away because of the famine.
DARBY Translation: And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very grievous; and the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan were exhausted through the famine.
KJV Translation: And [there was] no bread in all the land; for the famine [was] very sore, so that the land of Egypt and [all] the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
Verse Intro: Joseph and the Famine
Keywords: EXTORTION
Description: Psalms 109:11
NET Translation: May the creditor seize all he owns. May strangers loot his property.
DARBY Translation: Let the usurer cast the net over all that he hath, and let strangers despoil his labour;
KJV Translation: Let the EXTORTIONer catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
Keywords: INJUSTICE,JUSTICE,OPPRESSION,POOR,RULERS,SIN
Description: Ecclesiastes 5:8
NET Translation: If you see the EXTORTION of the poor, or the perversion of justice and fairness in the government, do not be astonished by the matter. For the high official is watched by a higher official, and there are higher ones over them!
DARBY Translation: If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter; for a higher than the high is watching, and there are higher than they.
KJV Translation: If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matterK4419: for [he that is] higher than the highest regardeth; and [there be] higher than they.
Verse Intro: The Corruption of Man's Government
Keywords: EXTORTION,POOR
Description: Isaiah 16:4
NET Translation: Please let the Moabite fugitives live among you. Hide them from the destroyer!” Certainly the one who applies pressure will cease; the destroyer will come to an end; those who trample will disappear from the earth.
DARBY Translation: Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the waster. For the EXTORTIONer is at an end, the wasting hath ceased, the oppressorsD4734 are consumed out of the landD4735.
KJV Translation: Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the EXTORTIONerK4667is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressorsK4668are consumed out of the land.
Keywords: COVETOUSNESS,HEART,OPPRESSION
Description: Jeremiah 22:17
NET Translation: But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.’”
DARBY Translation: ButD5309 thine eyes and thy heart are only on thine EXTORTIOND5310, and on the blood of the innocent, to shed it, and on oppression and on violence, to do it.
KJV Translation: But thine eyes and thine heart [are] not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violenceK5196, to do [it].
Keywords: MALICE
Description: Ezekiel 18:18
NET Translation: As for his father, because he practices EXTORTION, robs his brother, and does what is not good among his people, he will die for his iniquity.
DARBY Translation: As for his father, because he practised oppression, exercised robbery upon his brother, and did what was not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity.
KJV Translation: [As for] his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did [that] which [is] not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.
Keywords: BRIBERY,COVETOUSNESS,EXTORTION,INTEREST,USURY
Description: Ezekiel 22:12
NET Translation: They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign Lord.
DARBY Translation: In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast overreachedD5719 thy neighbours by oppressionD5720, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah.
KJV Translation: In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by EXTORTION, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
Keywords: ALIENS,DISHONESTY,OPPRESSION,POOR,STRANGERS,THEFT AND THIEVES
Description: Ezekiel 22:29
NET Translation: The people of the land have practiced EXTORTION and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy; they have oppressed the resident foreigner and denied them justice.
DARBY Translation: The people of the land use oppression and practise robbery; and they vex the poor and needy, and oppress the stranger wrongfully.
KJV Translation: The people of the land have used oppressionK5626, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfullyK5627.
Keywords: EXTORTION,WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: Micah 3:2
NET Translation: yet you hate what is good and love what is evil. You flay my people’s skin and rip the flesh from their bones.
DARBY Translation: Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;
KJV Translation: Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
Keywords: EXTORTION
Description: Micah 3:3
NET Translation: You devour my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot—like meat in a kettle.
DARBY Translation: and who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron.
KJV Translation: Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
Keywords: AMBITION
Description: Habakkuk 2:6
NET Translation: “But all these nations will someday taunt him and ridicule him with proverbial sayings: ‘Woe to the one who accumulates what does not belong to him (How long will this go on?)—he who gets rich by EXTORTION!’
DARBY Translation: Shall not all these take up a proverb about him, and a taunting riddle against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that loadeth himself with pledgesD6437!
KJV Translation: Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to himK6376that increaseth [that which is] not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!
Verse Intro: The Babylonians will be Judged foir Their Wickedness
Keywords: CUP,EXTORTION
Description: Matthew 23:25
NET Translation: “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
DARBY Translation: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within they are full of rapine and intemperanceD6898.
KJV Translation: “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of EXTORTION and excess.”
Keywords: CONCEIT,EXTORTION,HYPOCRISY,PRESUMPTION,PUBLICANS,SELF-DELUSION,TAX,THANKFULNESS
Description: Luke 18:11
NET Translation: The Pharisee stood and prayed about himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: EXTORTIONists, unrighteous people, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
DARBY Translation: The Pharisee, standing, prayed thus to himself: God, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer.
KJV Translation: “The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men” [are], “EXTORTIONers, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.”
Keywords: ADULTERY,DEPRAVITY OF MAN,EXTORTION
Description: 1 Corinthians 5:10
NET Translation: In no way did I mean the immoral people of this world, or the greedy and swindlers and idolaters, since you would then have to go out of the world.
DARBY Translation: not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the avaricious and rapacious, or idolaters, since [then] ye should go out of the world.
KJV Translation: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or EXTORTIONers, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
Keywords: CHURCH,COVETOUSNESS,CRIME,DRUNKARD,EXTORTION,FELLOWSHIP,RAILING
Description: 1 Corinthians 5:11
NET Translation: But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who calls himself a Christian who is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or verbally abusive, or a drunkard, or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.
DARBY Translation: But now I have written to you, if any one called brother be fornicator, or avaricious, or idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to mix with [him]; with such a one not even to eat.
KJV Translation: But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an EXTORTIONer; with such an one no not to eat.
Keywords: ADULTERY,COVETOUSNESS,DRUNKARD,EXTORTION,IDOLATRY,LASCIVIOUSNESS,SLANDER,SPEAKING,THEFT AND THIEVES,WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: 1 Corinthians 6:10
NET Translation: thieves, the greedy, drunkards, the verbally abusive, and swindlers will not inherit the kingdom of God.
DARBY Translation: nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor abusive persons, nor [the] rapacious, shall inherit [the] kingdom of God.
KJV Translation: Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor EXTORTIONers, shall inherit the kingdom of God.