26They went off and worshiped other gods and bowed down to them, gods they did not know, gods he had not given them.


In Context

23 The whole land will be a burning waste of salt and sulfur-nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in fierce anger.

24 All the nations will ask: "Why has the Lord done this to this land? Why this fierce, burning anger?"

25 And the answer will be: "It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the Lord , the God of their fathers, the covenant he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt.

26 They went off and worshiped other gods and bowed down to them, gods they did not know, gods he had not given them.

27 Therefore the Lord 's anger burned against this land, so that he brought on it all the curses written in this book.

28 In furious anger and in great wrath the Lord uprooted them from their land and thrust them into another land, as it is now."

Deuteronomy 29:26 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

29:26For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and [whom] he had not given unto them:

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

29:26And they have served strange gods, and adored them, whom they knew not, and for whom they had not been assigned:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

29:26and went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods that they knew not, and that he had not given unto them:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

29:26and they went and served other gods, and bowed down to them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not assigned to them.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

29:26and went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

29:26For they went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods which they knew not, and which he had not given to them:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

29:26and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they didn't know, and that he had not given to them:

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

29:26and they go and serve other gods, and bow themselves to them — gods which they have not known, and which He hath not apportioned to them;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

29:26For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given to them: