New Revised Standard Version
When Ephraim multiplied altars to expiate sin, they became to him altars for sinning.

Contemporary English Version
Israel, you have built many altars where you offer sacrifices for sin. But these altars have become places for sin.

New American Bible
When Ephraim made many altars to expiate sin, they became altars for sinning.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin: altars are become to him unto sin.

Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin: altars are become to him unto sin.

many.

Hosea 10:1,2,8 Israel a vine full of branches, the fruit is agreeable to it: according to the multitude of his fruit, he hath multiplied altars, according to the plenty of his land he hath abounded with idols. . . .

Hosea 12:11 If Galaad be an idol, then in vain were they in Galgal offering sacrifices with bullocks: for their altars also are as heaps in the furrows of the field.

Isaiah 10:10,11 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idol, so also their idols of Jerusalem, and of Samaria. . . .

altars.

Deuteronomy 4:28 And there you shall serve gods, that were framed with men's hands: wood and stone, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

Jeremiah 16:13 So I will cast you forth out of this land, into a land which you know not, nor your fathers: and there you shall serve strange gods day and night, which shall not give you any rest.