Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “Go to Bethel and sin; go to Gilgal and sin yet more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three years. New Living Translation “Go ahead and offer sacrifices to the idols at Bethel. Keep on disobeying at Gilgal. Offer sacrifices each morning, and bring your tithes every three days. English Standard Version “Come to Bethel, and transgress; to Gilgal, and multiply transgression; bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days; Berean Standard Bible “Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days. King James Bible Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years: New King James Version “Come to Bethel and transgress, At Gilgal multiply transgression; Bring your sacrifices every morning, Your tithes every three days. New American Standard Bible “Enter Bethel and do wrong; In Gilgal multiply wrongdoing! Bring your sacrifices every morning, Your tithes every three days. NASB 1995 “Enter Bethel and transgress; In Gilgal multiply transgression! Bring your sacrifices every morning, Your tithes every three days. NASB 1977 “Enter Bethel and transgress; In Gilgal multiply transgression! Bring your sacrifices every morning, Your tithes every three days. Legacy Standard Bible “Enter Bethel and transgress; In Gilgal multiply transgression! Bring your sacrifices every morning, Your tithes every three days. Amplified Bible “Come to Bethel [where the golden calf is] and transgress; In Gilgal [where idols are worshiped] multiply transgression; Bring your sacrifices every morning, Your tithes every three days! Christian Standard Bible Come to Bethel and rebel; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tenths every three days. Holman Christian Standard Bible Come to Bethel and rebel; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tenths every three days. American Standard Version Come to Beth-el, and transgress; to Gilgal, and multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes every three days; Contemporary English Version Come to Bethel and Gilgal. Sin all you want! Offer sacrifices the next morning and bring a tenth of your crops on the third day. English Revised Version Come to Beth-el, and transgress; to Gilgal, and multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes every three days; GOD'S WORD® Translation Go to Bethel and sin. Go to Gilgal and sin even more. Bring your sacrifices every morning. Bring a tenth of your income every three days. Good News Translation The Sovereign LORD says, "People of Israel, go to the holy place in Bethel and sin, if you must! Go to Gilgal and sin with all your might! Go ahead and bring animals to be sacrificed morning after morning, and bring your tithes every third day. International Standard Version "Come to Bethel and sin, to Gilgal and sin even more! Bring along your morning sacrifices, and pay your tithes every other day. Majority Standard Bible “Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days. NET Bible "Go to Bethel and rebel! At Gilgal rebel some more! Bring your sacrifices in the morning, your tithes on the third day! New Heart English Bible "Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days, Webster's Bible Translation Come to Beth-el and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years: World English Bible “Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days, Literal Translations Literal Standard Version“Enter Beth-El, and transgress, "" At Gilgal multiply transgression, "" And bring in your sacrifices every morning, "" Your tithes every third year. Young's Literal Translation Enter ye Beth-El, and transgress, At Gilgal multiply transgression, And bring in every morning your sacrifices, Every third year your tithes. Smith's Literal Translation Come to the house of God and transgress: at Gilgal multiply to transgress; and bring your sacrifices for the morning, your tenths for three days: Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleCome ye to Bethel, and do wickedly: to Galgal, and multiply transgressions: and bring in the morning your victims, your tithes in three days. Catholic Public Domain Version Come to Bethel and behave impiously, to Gilgal and increase betrayals. And bring daybreak to your victims, your tithes in three days. New American Bible Come to Bethel and sin, to Gilgal and sin all the more! Each morning bring your sacrifices, every third day your tithes; New Revised Standard Version Come to Bethel—and transgress; to Gilgal—and multiply transgression; bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days; Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleCome to Beth-el and transgress; go to Gilgal and multiply transgressions; and bring your sacrifices every morning and your tithes every third day, Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Enter into Bayth Eil and do evil and multiply doing evil into Galgala; bring your offerings at morning, and your tithes in three days OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Come to Beth-el, and transgress, To Gilgal, and multiply transgression; And bring your sacrifices in the morning, And your tithes after three days; Brenton Septuagint Translation Ye went into Bethel, and sinned, and ye multiplied sin at Galgala; and ye brought your meat-offerings in the morning, and your tithes every third day. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Punishment Brings No Repentance…3You will go out through broken walls, each one straight ahead of her, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,” declares the LORD. 4“Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days. 5Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.… Cross References Hosea 4:15 Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, may Judah avoid such guilt! Do not journey to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear on oath, ‘As surely as the LORD lives!’ Hosea 9:15 All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious. Isaiah 1:11-15 “What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. / When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts? / Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me. New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations—I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly. ... Jeremiah 7:9-10 Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known, / and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’? Jeremiah 7:21-23 This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves! / For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices, / but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you. Micah 6:6-8 With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves? / Would the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I present my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? / He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? 1 Samuel 15:22 But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams. Isaiah 58:1-5 “Cry aloud, do not hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins. / For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.” / “Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers. ... Matthew 23:23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. Mark 7:6-9 Jesus answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. / They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’ / You have disregarded the commandment of God to keep the tradition of men.” ... Luke 11:42 Woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithes of mint, rue, and every herb, but you disregard justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former. Matthew 15:7-9 You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you: / ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. / They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’” Isaiah 29:13 Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men. 1 Corinthians 11:17-22 In the following instructions I have no praise to offer, because your gatherings do more harm than good. / First of all, I hear that when you come together as a church, there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it. / And indeed, there must be differences among you to show which of you are approved. ... Hebrews 10:26-31 If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains, / but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries. / Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. ... Treasury of Scripture Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years: Come. Amos 3:14 That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground. Ecclesiastes 11:9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. Ezekiel 20:39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols. at Gilgal Amos 5:5 But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought. Hosea 4:15 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth. Hosea 9:15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters. and bring. Numbers 28:3,4 And thou shalt say unto them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the LORD; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a continual burnt offering… and your. Deuteronomy 14:28,29 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates: … Deuteronomy 26:12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled; three years. Jump to Previous Bethel Enter Evil Gilgal Increasing Morning Multiply Offerings Sacrifices Sin Sins Tenths Third Three Tithes Transgress TransgressionJump to Next Bethel Enter Evil Gilgal Increasing Morning Multiply Offerings Sacrifices Sin Sins Tenths Third Three Tithes Transgress TransgressionAmos 4 1. He reproves Israel for oppression,4. for idolatry, 6. and for their incorrigibleness. Go to Bethel and transgress The phrase "Go to Bethel and transgress" is a call to the Israelites, highlighting their persistent sinfulness. Bethel, meaning "house of God" in Hebrew, was a significant religious site. Historically, it was a place where Jacob had a vision of God (Genesis 28:19). However, by the time of Amos, Bethel had become a center of idolatrous worship. The irony in this command is stark; a place once associated with divine encounters is now a hub of transgression. The Hebrew word for "transgress" (פָּשַׁע, pasha) implies a willful rebellion against God’s covenant. This phrase underscores the gravity of Israel's spiritual decline, as they continue to sin even in places meant for worship. to Gilgal and multiply your transgressions Bring your sacrifices every morning your tithes every three days Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew “Goבֹּ֤אוּ (bō·’ū) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go to Bethel אֵל֙ (’êl) Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 1008: Bethel -- 'house of God', a city in Ephraim, also a place in southern Judah and transgress; וּפִשְׁע֔וּ (ū·p̄iš·‘ū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's 6586: To break away, trespass, apostatize, quarrel rebel לִפְשֹׁ֑עַ (lip̄·šō·a‘) Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct Strong's 6586: To break away, trespass, apostatize, quarrel even more הַרְבּ֣וּ (har·bū) Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's 7235: To be or become much, many or great at Gilgal! הַגִּלְגָּ֖ל (hag·gil·gāl) Article | Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 1537: Gilgal -- 'circle (of stones)', the name of several places in Palestine Bring וְהָבִ֤יאוּ (wə·hā·ḇî·’ū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go your sacrifices זִבְחֵיכֶ֔ם (ziḇ·ḥê·ḵem) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 2077: A slaughter, the flesh of an animal, a sacrifice every morning, לַבֹּ֙קֶר֙ (lab·bō·qer) Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1242: Dawn, morning your tithes מַעְשְׂרֹֽתֵיכֶֽם׃ (ma‘·śə·rō·ṯê·ḵem) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 4643: Tenth part, tithe every three לִשְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת (liš·lō·šeṯ) Preposition-l | Number - masculine singular construct Strong's 7969: Three, third, thrice days. יָמִ֖ים (yā·mîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 3117: A day Links Amos 4:4 NIVAmos 4:4 NLT Amos 4:4 ESV Amos 4:4 NASB Amos 4:4 KJV Amos 4:4 BibleApps.com Amos 4:4 Biblia Paralela Amos 4:4 Chinese Bible Amos 4:4 French Bible Amos 4:4 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Amos 4:4 Go to Bethel and sin (Amo. 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