New International Version
because they had not met the Israelites with food and water but had hired Balaam to call a curse down on them. (Our God, however, turned the curse into a blessing.)

New Living Translation
For they had not provided the Israelites with food and water in the wilderness. Instead, they hired Balaam to curse them, though our God turned the curse into a blessing.

English Standard Version
for they did not meet the people of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them—yet our God turned the curse into a blessing.

Berean Study Bible
because they had not met the Israelites with food and water, but had hired Balaam to call down a curse against them (although our God had turned the curse into a blessing).

New American Standard Bible
because they did not meet the sons of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them. However, our God turned the curse into a blessing.

King James Bible
Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
because they did not meet the Israelites with food and water. Instead, they hired Balaam against them to curse them, but our God turned the curse into a blessing.

International Standard Version
because they did not greet the Israelis with food and water, but instead hired Balaam to oppose them by cursing them, even though our God turned the curse into a blessing.

NET Bible
for they had not met the Israelites with food and water, but instead had hired Balaam to curse them. (Our God, however, turned the curse into blessing.)

GOD'S WORD® Translation
(After all, they didn't welcome the Israelites with food and water. Instead, they hired Balaam to curse the Israelites. But our God turned the curse into a blessing.)

Jubilee Bible 2000
because they did not meet the sons of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them; howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.

King James 2000 Bible
Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: however our God turned the curse into a blessing.

American King James Version
Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: however, our God turned the curse into a blessing.

American Standard Version
because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and water: and they hired against them Balaam, to curse them, and our God turned the curse into blessing.

Darby Bible Translation
because they had not met the children of Israel with bread and with water, and had hired Balaam against them, to curse them; but our God turned the curse into blessing.

English Revised Version
because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.

Webster's Bible Translation
Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Baalam against them, that he should curse them: but our God turned the curse into a blessing.

World English Bible
because they didn't meet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them: however our God turned the curse into a blessing.

Young's Literal Translation
because they have not come before the sons of Israel with bread and with water, and hire against them Balaam to revile them, and our God turneth the reviling into a blessing.

Nehemia 13:2 Afrikaans PWL
omdat hulle nie die seuns van Yisra’el met brood en water ontmoet het nie, maar vir Bil’am gehuur het om hulle te vervloek, maar ons God het sy vloeke in seëninge verander.

Nehemia 13:2 Albanian
sepse nuk i kishin pritur me bukë e me ujë bijtë e Izraelit dhe kishin rekrutuar kundër tyre me para Balaamin për t'i mallkuar; por Perëndia ynë e ndëroi mallkimin në bekim.

ﻧﺤﻤﻴﺎ 13:2 Arabic: Smith & Van Dyke
لانهم لم يلاقوا بني اسرائيل بالخبز والماء بل استأجروا عليهم بلعام لكي يلعنهم وحول الهنا اللعنة الى بركة.

Dyr Nehymies 13:2 Bavarian
denn die seind ainst yn de Isryheeler nit mit Broot und Wasser zgögnkemmen. Mob haat önn Pilgram gögn ien dungen, däß yr s verfluecht. Doch ünser Got gwenddt dönn Fluech in aynn Sögn."

Неемия 13:2 Bulgarian
защото не посрещнаха израилтяните с хляб и вода, а наеха против тях Валаама, за да ги прокълне; обаче нашият Бог обърна проклятията в благословение.

現代標點和合本 (CUVMP Traditional)
因為他們沒有拿食物和水來迎接以色列人，且雇了巴蘭咒詛他們，但我們的神使那咒詛變為祝福。

现代标点和合本 (CUVMP Simplified)
因为他们没有拿食物和水来迎接以色列人，且雇了巴兰咒诅他们，但我们的神使那咒诅变为祝福。

尼 希 米 記 13:2 Chinese Bible: Union (Traditional)
因 為 他 們 沒 有 拿 食 物 和 水 來 迎 接 以 色 列 人 ， 且 雇 了 巴 蘭 咒 詛 他 們 ， 但 我 們 的 　 神 使 那 咒 詛 變 為 祝 福 。

尼 希 米 記 13:2 Chinese Bible: Union (Simplified)
因 为 他 们 没 有 拿 食 物 和 水 来 迎 接 以 色 列 人 ， 且 雇 了 巴 兰 咒 诅 他 们 ， 但 我 们 的 　 神 使 那 咒 诅 变 为 祝 福 。

Nehemiah 13:2 Croatian Bible
jer nisu sinovima Izraelovima izašli u susret s kruhom i vodom, nego su čak najmili protiv njih Bileama da ih prokune, ali je naš Bog obratio kletvu u blagoslov.

Kinha Nehemiášova 13:2 Czech BKR
Proto že nevyšli proti synům Izraelským s chlebem a s vodou, ale najali ze mzdy proti nim Baláma, aby jim zlořečil, ačkoli obrátil Bůh náš to zlořečení v požehnání.

Nehemias 13:2 Danish
fordi de ikke kom Israeliterne i Møde med Brød og Vand, og fordi han havde lejet Bileam til at forbande dem, men vor Gud vendte Forbandelsen til Velsignelse.

Nehemia 13:2 Dutch Staten Vertaling
Omdat zij den kinderen Israels niet waren tegengekomen met brood en met water, ja, Bileam tegen hen gehuurd hadden, om hen te vloeken, hoewel onze God den vloek omkeerde in een zegen.