Amos 4:4-5
New English Translation
Israel has an Appointment with God
4 “Go to Bethel[a] and rebel![b]
At Gilgal[c] rebel some more!
Bring your sacrifices in[d] the morning,
your tithes on[e] the third day!
5 Burn a thank offering of bread made with yeast![f]
Make a public display of your voluntary offerings![g]
For you love to do this, you Israelites.”
The Sovereign Lord is speaking.
Footnotes
- Amos 4:4 sn Bethel and Gilgal were important formal worship centers because of their importance in Israel’s history. Here the Lord ironically urges the people to visit these places so they can increase their sin against him. Their formal worship, because it was not accompanied by social justice, only made them more guilty in God’s sight by adding hypocrisy to their list of sins. Obviously, theirs was a twisted view of the Lord. They worshiped a god of their own creation in order to satisfy their religious impulses (see 4:5: “For you love to do this”). Note that none of the rituals listed in 4:4-5 have to do with sin.
- Amos 4:4 tn The Hebrew word translated “rebel” (also in the following line) could very well refer here to Israel’s violations of their covenant with God (see also the term “crimes” in 1:3 [with note] and the phrase “covenant transgressions” in 2:4 [with note] and 3:14).
- Amos 4:4 sn See the note on Bethel earlier in this verse.
- Amos 4:4 tn Or “for.”
- Amos 4:4 tn Or “for.”
- Amos 4:5 sn For the background of the thank offering of bread made with yeast, see Lev 7:13.
- Amos 4:5 tn Heb “proclaim voluntary offerings, announce.”
Amos 4:4-5
New International Version
4 “Go to Bethel(A) and sin;
go to Gilgal(B) and sin yet more.
Bring your sacrifices every morning,(C)
your tithes(D) every three years.[a](E)
5 Burn leavened bread(F) as a thank offering
and brag about your freewill offerings(G)—
boast about them, you Israelites,
for this is what you love to do,”
declares the Sovereign Lord.
Footnotes
- Amos 4:4 Or days
Amos 4:4-5
King James Version
4 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:
5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God.
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Amos 4:4-5
New King James Version
4 “Come(A) to Bethel and transgress,
At (B)Gilgal multiply transgression;
(C)Bring your sacrifices every morning,
(D)Your tithes every three [a]days.
5 (E)Offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven,
Proclaim and announce (F)the freewill offerings;
For this you love,
You children of Israel!”
Says the Lord God.
Footnotes
- Amos 4:4 Or years, Deut. 14:28
Amos 4:4-5
English Standard Version
4 (A)“Come to Bethel, and transgress;
to (B)Gilgal, and multiply transgression;
(C)bring your (D)sacrifices every morning,
your tithes every three days;
5 offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of (E)that which is leavened,
and proclaim (F)freewill offerings, publish them;
(G)for so you love to do, O people of Israel!”
declares the Lord God.
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