6and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem unto the sons of the Grecians, that ye may remove them far from their border;


In Context

3 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.

4 Yea, and what are ye to me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? will ye render me a recompense? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompense upon your own head.

5 Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things,

6 and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem unto the sons of the Grecians, that ye may remove them far from their border;

7 behold, I will stir them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head;

8 and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the men of Sheba, to a nation far off: for Jehovah hath spoken it.

Joel 3:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:6The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:6You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, that you might send them far from their homeland.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:6The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have you sold to the Grecians, that you might remove them far from their border.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:6And the children of Juda, and the children of Jerusalem you have sold to the children of the Greeks, that you might remove them far off from their own country.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:6and the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the children of the Greeks, that ye might remove them far from their border.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:6the children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the sons of the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:6The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold to the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:6and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:6And sons of Judah, and sons of Jerusalem, Ye have sold to the sons of Javan, To put them far off from their border.