Other translations
American Standard Version
Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And let them be to you alone, and let not estranged males be sexual partners with you.
Darby Bible Translation
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)
Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance
Let them be for thyself alone, and not for strangers with thee.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible
Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
God's Word
They should be yours alone, so do not share them with strangers.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
They should be for you alone and not for you to share with strangers.
International Standard Version
They should be for you alone and not for strangers who are with you.
NET Bible
Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
New American Standard Bible
Let them be yours alone And not for strangers with you.
New International Version
Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
New Living Translation
You should reserve it for yourselves. Never share it with strangers.
Webster's Bible Translation
Let them be only thy own, and not for strangers with thee.
The World English Bible
Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.
EasyEnglish Bible
Keep it for you and your wife. Do not share it with other women.
Young‘s Literal Translation
Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee.
New Life Version
Let them be yours alone, and not for strangers with you.
The Voice Bible
They should be kept pure for you and you alone, not for sharing with strangers.
Living Bible
Why share your children with those outside your home?
New Catholic Bible
Let them be for you alone and not be shared by strangers.
Legacy Standard Bible
Let them be for you alone, And not for strangers with you.
Jubilee Bible 2000
Let them be only thine own and not for strangers with thee.
Christian Standard Bible
They should be for you alone and not for you to share with strangers.
Amplified Bible © 1954
[Confine yourself to your own wife] let your children be for you alone, and not the children of strangers with you.
New Century Version
These things are yours alone and shouldn’t be shared with strangers.
The Message
Your spring water is for you and you only, not to be passed around among strangers. Bless your fresh-flowing fountain! Enjoy the wife you married as a young man! Lovely as an angel, beautiful as a rose— don’t ever quit taking delight in her body. Never take her love for granted! Why would you trade enduring intimacies for cheap thrills with a prostitute? for dalliance with a promiscuous stranger?
Evangelical Heritage Version ™
They should be yours, yours alone. They are not for strangers to share with you.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Let them be for yourself alone, and not for sharing with strangers.
Good News Translation®
Your children should grow up to help you, not strangers.
Wycliffe Bible
Have thou alone them; and aliens be not thy partners. (Have thou them alone; and let not strangers be thy partners.)
Contemporary English Version
Save yourself for your wife and don't have sex with other women.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Let them be for yourself alone and not for sharing with strangers.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Let them be for yourself alone, and not for sharing with strangers.
Common English Bible © 2011
They are yours alone, not for you as well as strangers.
Amplified Bible © 2015
[Confine yourself to your own wife.] Let your children be yours alone, And not the children of strangers with you.
English Standard Version Anglicised
Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Let them be yours alone, not shared with outsiders;
New American Standard Bible
Let them be yours alone, And not for strangers with you.
The Expanded Bible
These things are yours alone and shouldn’t be shared with strangers.
Tree of Life Version
Let them be yours alone and not shared with strangers.
Revised Standard Version
Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
New International Reader's Version
No! Let them belong to you alone. Never share them with strangers.
BRG Bible
Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.
Complete Jewish Bible
but let them be for you alone and not for strangers with you.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Let them be for yourself alone, and not for sharing with strangers.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
Let them be only thine own, and never zarim (strangers) with thee.
Names of God Bible
They should be yours alone, so do not share them with strangers.
Modern English Version
Let them be only your own, and not for strangers with you.
Easy-to-Read Version
Keep it for yourself, and don’t share it with strangers.
International Children’s Bible
These things are yours alone. Don’t share them with strangers.
Lexham English Bible
May they be yours alone, and not for strangers who are with you.
New International Version - UK
Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.