Other translations
American Standard Version
Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, Than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Better is a meal of vegetables and the love of The Name, than Fattened oxen with hatred.
Darby Bible Translation
Better is a meal of herbs where love is, than a fatted ox and hatred therewith.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)
It is better to be invited to herbs with love, than to a fatted calf with hatred.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.
God's Word
Better to have a dish of vegetables where there is love than juicy steaks where there is hate.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
International Standard Version
A vegetarian meal served with love is better than a big, thick steak with a plateful of animosity.
NET Bible
Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox where there is hatred.
New American Standard Bible
Better is a dish of vegetables where love is Than a fattened ox served with hatred.
New International Version
Better a small serving of vegetables with love than a fattened calf with hatred.
New Living Translation
A bowl of vegetables with someone you love is better than steak with someone you hate.
Webster's Bible Translation
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred with it.
The World English Bible
Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.
EasyEnglish Bible
It is better to eat vegetables with people who love each other than to eat good meat with people who hate each other.
Young‘s Literal Translation
Better [is] an allowance of green herbs and love there, Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.
New Life Version
A dish of vegetables with love is better than eating the best meat with hate.
The Voice Bible
Better to eat only vegetables served lovingly than a fattened ox served hatefully.
Living Bible
It is better to eat soup with someone you love than steak with someone you hate.
New Catholic Bible
Better a dish of herbs served with love than a fattened ox accompanied by hatred.
Legacy Standard Bible
Better is a dish of vegetables where there is love Than a fattened ox and hatred in it.
Jubilee Bible 2000
Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is than a fatted calf and hatred therewith.
Christian Standard Bible
Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
Amplified Bible © 1954
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it.
New Century Version
It is better to eat vegetables with those who love you than to eat meat with those who hate you.
The Message
Better a bread crust shared in love than a slab of prime rib served in hate.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™
Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it.
Good News Translation®
Better to eat vegetables with people you love than to eat the finest meat where there is hate.
Wycliffe Bible
It is better to be called to worts with charity, than with hatred to a calf made fat. (It is better to be warmly, or cordially, called to herbs, or vegetables, than to be hatefully invited to share a fattened calf.)
Contemporary English Version
A simple meal with love is better than a feast where there is hatred.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it.
Common English Bible © 2011
Better a meal of greens with love than a plump calf with hate.
Amplified Bible © 2015
Better is a dinner of vegetables and herbs where love is present Than a fattened ox served with hatred.
English Standard Version Anglicised
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Better a dish of herbs where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it.
New American Standard Bible
Better is a portion of vegetables where there is love, Than a fattened ox served with hatred.
The Expanded Bible
It is better to eat vegetables with those who love you than ·to eat meat [L an ox of the stall] with those who hate you.
Tree of Life Version
Better a meal of vegetables where there is love, than a fattened ox where there is hatred.
Revised Standard Version
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it.
New International Reader's Version
A few vegetables where there is love are better than the finest meat where there is hatred.
BRG Bible
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Complete Jewish Bible
Better a vegetable dinner with love than a stall-fattened ox with hate.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
Better is a meal of yarak (vegetables) where love is, than a fatted calf and sinah (hatred) therewith.
Names of God Bible
Better to have a dish of vegetables where there is love than juicy steaks where there is hate.
Modern English Version
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fatted calf with hatred.
Easy-to-Read Version
It is better to eat a little where there is love than to eat a lot where there is hate.
International Children’s Bible
It is better to eat vegetables with those who love you than to eat meat with those who hate you.
Lexham English Bible
Better is a dinner of vegetables when love is there than a fattened ox and hatred with it.
New International Version - UK
Better a dish of vegetables with love than a fattened calf with hatred.