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Jonah Cast into the Sea

Jonah 1:15

In 11 translations

BSB
At this, they picked up Jonah and cast him into the sea, and the raging sea grew calm.
KJV
So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.ceased: Heb. stood
WEB
So they took up Jonah and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased its raging.
ASV
So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.
LSV
And they lift up Jonah, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceases from its raging;
YLT
And they lift up Jonah, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceaseth from its raging;
DBY
And they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from its raging.
DRC
And they took Jonas, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceased from raging.
GNV
So they tooke vp Ionah, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceased from her raging.
JPS
So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.
LXXE
So they took Jonas, and cast him out into the sea: and the sea ceased from its raging.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיִּשְׂאוּ֙ אֶת־יוֹנָ֔ה וַיְטִלֻ֖הוּ אֶל־הַיָּ֑ם וַיַּעֲמֹ֥ד הַיָּ֖ם מִזַּעְפּֽוֹ׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἔλαβον τὸν Ἰωνᾶν, καὶ ἐξέβαλον αὐτὸν εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν, καὶ ἔστη ἡ θάλασσα ἐκ τοῦ σάλου αὐτῆς.

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  • Jonah and the great fish Jonah flees God's call to Nineveh; thrown overboard, he is swallowed by a great fish and returned to land. Sent again, he warns the city; it…

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 93:3–4The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves. Above the roar of many waters— the mighty breakers of the sea— the LORD on high is majestic.
  • Luke 8:24The disciples went and woke Him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” Then Jesus got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters, and they subsided, and all was calm.
  • Psalms 89:9You rule the raging sea; when its waves mount up, You still them.
  • Psalms 107:29He calmed the storm to a whisper, and the waves of the sea were hushed.
  • Matthew 8:26“You of little faith,” Jesus replied, “why are you so afraid?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was perfectly calm.
  • Psalms 65:7You stilled the roaring of the seas, the pounding of their waves, and the tumult of the nations.
  • Joshua 7:24–26Then Joshua, together with all Israel, took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the cloak, the bar of gold, his sons and daughters, his oxen and donkeys and sheep, his tent, and everything else he owned, and brought them…
  • 2 Samuel 21:8–9But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons whom Rizpah daughter of Aiah had borne to Saul, as well as the five sons whom Merab daughter of Saul had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite. And he…

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