Zechariah 7:6

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Zechariah 7:6

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Berean Standard Bible

And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?

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KJV

King James Version

And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat [for yourselves], and drink [for yourselves]?

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WEB

World English Bible

When you eat and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

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ASV

American Standard Version

And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Zechariah 7

⁴ Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying,

⁵ “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?

⁶ And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?

⁷ Are these not the words that the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were populous and prosperous, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?’”

⁸ Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying,

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