The Feeding of the Five Thousand
Mark 6:39
In 9 translations
- BSB
- Then Jesus directed them to have the people sit in groups on the green grass.
- KJV
- And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.
- WEB
- He commanded them that everyone should sit down in groups on the green grass.
- ASV
- And he commanded them that all should sit down by companies upon the green grass.
- LSV
- And He commanded them to make all recline in companies on the green grass,
- YLT
- And he commanded them to make all recline in companies upon the green grass,
- DBY
- And he ordered them to make them all sit down by companies on the green grass.
- DRC
- And he commanded them that they should make them all sit down by companies upon the green grass.
- GNV
- So he commanded them to make them all sit downe by companies vpon the greene grasse.
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Where the editions differ
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- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Tregelles, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ἀνακλῖναι (“to recline”); Westcott–Hort read ἀνακλιθῆναι (“to be reclined”).
SBLGNT apparatus (1)
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- SBLGNT: ἀνακλῖναι. Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition, Robinson–Pierpont read ἀνακλῖναι; Westcott and Hort (1881) read ἀνακλιθῆναι.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- καὶ ἐπέταξεν αὐτοῖς ἀνακλῖναι πάντας συμπόσια συμπόσια ἐπὶ τῷ χλωρῷ χόρτῳ.
- RP2018
- Καὶ ἐπέταξεν αὐτοῖς ἀνακλῖναι πάντας συμπόσια συμπόσια ἐπὶ τῷ χλωρῷ χόρτῳ.
- TR-Boyd
- Καὶ ἐπέταξεν αὐτοῖς ἀνακλῖναι πάντας συμπόσια συμπόσια ἐπὶ τῷ χλωρῷ χόρτῳ.
- SCR1894
- και επεταξεν αυτοις ανακλιναι παντας συμποσια συμποσια επι τω χλωρω χορτω
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- 1 Corinthians 14:40But everything must be done in a proper and orderly manner.
- 1 Corinthians 14:33For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace—as in all the churches of the saints.
- Matthew 15:35And He instructed the crowd to sit down on the ground.
- Esther 1:5–6At the end of this time, in the garden court of the royal palace, the king held a seven-day feast for all the people in the citadel of Susa, from the least to the greatest. Hangings of white and blue linen were…
- 1 Kings 10:5the food at his table, the seating of his servants, the service and attire of his attendants and cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he presented at the house of the LORD, it took her breath away.
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