The Lamb Takes the Scroll
Revelation 5:4
In 9 translations
- BSB
- And I began to weep bitterly, because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or look inside it.
- KJV
- And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
- WEB
- Then I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look in it.
- ASV
- And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book, or to look thereon:
- LSV
- And I was weeping much, because no one was found worthy to open and to read the scroll, nor to behold it,
- YLT
- And I was weeping much, because no one was found worthy to open and to read the scroll, nor to behold it,
- DBY
- And I wept much because no one had been found worthy to open the book nor to regard it.
- DRC
- And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open the book, nor to see it.
- GNV
- Then I wept much, because no man was foud worthy to open, and to reade the Booke, neither to looke thereon.
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Where the editions differ
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- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles, Byzantine text read πολὺ (“much”); Textus Receptus read πολλὰ (“many [times]”).
- In STEPBible’s comparison, Textus Receptus include καὶ ἀναγνῶναι (“and to read”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles, Byzantine text do not include this wording.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- In STEPBible’s comparison, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include ἐγὼ (“I myself”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House do not include this wording.
SBLGNT apparatus (1)
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- SBLGNT: ἐγὼ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Robinson–Pierpont read ἐγὼ; Nestle–Aland 28th edition omit this wording.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- καὶ ἐγὼ ἔκλαιον πολὺ ὅτι οὐδεὶς ἄξιος εὑρέθη ἀνοῖξαι τὸ βιβλίον οὔτε βλέπειν αὐτό·
- RP2018
- Καὶ ἐγὼ ἔκλαιον πολύ, ὅτι οὐδεὶς ἄξιος εὑρέθη ἀνοῖξαι τὸ βιβλίον, οὔτε βλέπειν αὐτό.
- TR-Boyd
- Καὶ ἐγὼ ἔκλαιον πολλά, ὅτι οὐδεὶς ἄξιος εὑρέθη ἀνοῖξαι καὶ ἀναγνῶναι τὸ βιβλίον, οὔτε βλέπειν αὐτό.
- SCR1894
- και εγω εκλαιον πολλα οτι ουδεις αξιος ευρεθη ανοιξαι και αναγνωναι το βιβλιον ουτε βλεπειν αυτο
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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Cross-references most cited first
- Daniel 12:8–9I heard, but I did not understand. So I asked, “My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?” “Go on your way, Daniel,” he replied, “for the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end.
- Revelation 4:1After this I looked and saw a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had previously heard speak to me like a trumpet was saying, “Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after these things.”
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