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The Harvest of the Earth

Revelation 14:16

In 9 translations

BSB
So the One seated on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.
KJV
And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.
WEB
He who sat on the cloud thrust his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.
ASV
And he that sat on the cloud cast his sickle upon the earth; and the earth was reaped.
LSV
and He who is sitting on the cloud put forth His sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.
YLT
and he who is sitting upon the cloud did put forth his sickle upon the earth, and the earth was reaped.
DBY
And he that sat on the cloud put his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.
DRC
And he that sat on the cloud thrust his sickle into the earth, and the earth was reaped.
GNV
And he that sate on the cloude, thrust in his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.

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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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  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read τῆς (“the”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read τὴν (“the”).
  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read νεφέλης (“cloud”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read νεφέλην (“cloud”).
SBLGNT apparatus (1)

A comparison of published Greek editions. “Add” means after the SBLGNT wording; “omit” refers to that wording.

  • SBLGNT: τῆς νεφέλης. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read τῆς νεφέλης; Robinson–Pierpont read τὴν νεφέλην.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
καὶ ἔβαλεν ὁ καθήμενος ἐπὶ τῆς νεφέλης τὸ δρέπανον αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, καὶ ἐθερίσθη ἡ γῆ.
RP2018
Καὶ ἔβαλεν ὁ καθήμενος ἐπὶ τὴν νεφέλην τὸ δρέπανον αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, καὶ ἐθερίσθη ἡ γῆ.
TR-Boyd
Καὶ ἔβαλεν ὁ καθήμενος ἐπὶ τὴν νεφέλην τὸ δρέπανον αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, καὶ ἐθερίσθη ἡ γῆ.
SCR1894
και εβαλεν ο καθημενος επι την νεφελην το δρεπανον αυτου επι την γην και εθερισθη η γη

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Matthew 16:27For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done.
  • Revelation 14:19So the angel swung his sickle over the earth and gathered the grapes of the earth, and he threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath.
  • Revelation 14:14And I looked and saw a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was One like the Son of Man, with a golden crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand.
  • Revelation 16:1–21Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go, pour out on the earth the seven bowls of God’s wrath.” So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and loathsome, malignant…
  • John 5:22–23Furthermore, the Father judges no one, but has assigned all judgment to the Son, so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

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