The Shepherds and the Angels
Luke 2:12
In 9 translations
- BSB
- And this will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”
- KJV
- And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
- WEB
- This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding trough.”
- ASV
- And this is the sign unto you: Ye shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, and lying in a manger.
- LSV
- And this [is] the sign to you: you will find a Baby wrapped up, lying in the manger.”
- YLT
- and this [is] to you the sign: Ye shall find a babe wrapped up, lying in the manger.'
- DBY
- And this is the sign to you: ye shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling-clothes, and lying in a manger.
- DRC
- And this shall be a sign unto you. You shall find the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes, and laid in a manger.
- GNV
- And this shalbe a signe to you, Yee shall finde the babe swadled, and laid in a cratch.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Greek has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Where the editions differ
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- In STEPBible’s comparison, NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Tregelles, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include τὸ (“the”); Westcott–Hort do not include this wording.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (2)
- In STEPBible’s comparison, NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles include καὶ (“and”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text do not include this wording.
- In STEPBible’s comparison, Textus Receptus include τῇ (“the”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles, Byzantine text do not include this wording.
SBLGNT apparatus (2)
A comparison of published Greek editions. “Add” means after the SBLGNT wording; “omit” refers to that wording.
- SBLGNT: τὸ. Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition, Robinson–Pierpont read τὸ; Westcott and Hort (1881) omit this wording.
- SBLGNT: καὶ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read καὶ; Robinson–Pierpont omit this wording.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- καὶ τοῦτο ὑμῖν τὸ σημεῖον, εὑρήσετε βρέφος ἐσπαργανωμένον καὶ κείμενον ἐν φάτνῃ.
- RP2018
- Καὶ τοῦτο ὑμῖν τὸ σημεῖον· εὑρήσετε βρέφος ἐσπαργανωμένον, κείμενον ἐν φάτνῃ.
- TR-Boyd
- Καὶ τοῦτο ὑμῖν τὸ σημεῖον· εὑρήσετε βρέφος ἐσπαργανωμένον, κείμενον ἐν τῇ φάτνῃ.
- SCR1894
- και τουτο υμιν το σημειον ευρησετε βρεφος εσπαργανωμενον κειμενον εν τη φατνη
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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Cross-references most cited first
- Isaiah 7:14Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.
- Isaiah 53:1–2Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty…
- Isaiah 7:11“Ask for a sign from the LORD your God, whether from the depths of Sheol or the heights of heaven.”
- Psalms 22:6But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
- 2 Kings 19:29And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat…
- 1 Samuel 2:34And this sign shall come to you concerning your two sons Hophni and Phinehas: They will both die on the same day.
- Exodus 3:12“I will surely be with you,” God said, “and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, all of you will worship God on this mountain.”
- 1 Samuel 10:2–7When you leave me today, you will find two men at Rachel’s tomb in Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you seek have been found, and now your father has stopped worrying about the…
- 2 Kings 20:8Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?”
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).