Translations
No — it was out of genuine concern that we did this. We feared the day when your children would say to our children: "What do you have to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel?"'
No — out of anxiety, and for a reason, we did this. We feared that in time to come your children might say to our children: "What have you to do with YHWH, the Elohim of Yisra'el?"'
And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with the LORD God of Israel?
But in fact we have done this for fear that in the future your descendants might say to ours, ‘What have you to do with the LORD, the God of Israel?