Luke 2:16

1380 (Wyclif's Bible by John Wycliffe)
1395 And thei hiyynge camen, and founden Marie and Joseph, and the yong child leid in a cratche. (Wyclif's Bible by John Wycliffe)
1534 And they cam with haste and founde Mary and Ioseph and the babe layde in a mager. (Tyndale Bible by William Tyndale)
1535 And they came wt haist, & founde both Mary and Ioseph, & the babe layed in ye maunger. (Coverdale Bible)
1539 (Great Bible First Edition - Miles Coverdale)
1540 And they came wt hast, & founde Mary and Ioseph & the babe layde in a manger. (Great Bible Second Edition - Miles Coverdale)
1549 And they came with haste: and founde Mary and Ioseph and the babe layed in a maunger. (Matthew's Bible - John Rogers)
1557 (Geneva 1557) by William Whittingham
1560
1568 And they came with haste, and founde Marie and Ioseph, and the babe layde in a manger. (Bishop's Bible First Edition)
1572 (Bishop's Bible)
1582 (Rheims 1582)
1587 So they came with haste, and founde both Marie and Ioseph, & the babe laid in the cratch. (Geneva Bible) by William Whittingham (Geneva Bible) by William Whittingham
1599 (Geneva Bible) by William Whittingham
1611 And they came with haste, and found Mary and Ioseph, and the babe lying in a manger. (King James Version)
1729 accordingly they hasted thither, and found Mary and Joseph with the babe lying in the manger. (Mace New Testament)
1745 And they came with haste, and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. (Mr. Whiston's Primitive New Testament)
1762 (King James Version)
1769 And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. (King James Version - Benjamin Blayney)
1770 And they came with speed, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the child lying in the manger: (Worsley Version by John Worsley)
1790 And they came with haste, and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in the manger. (Wesley Version by John Wesley)
1795 And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe, lying in the manger: (A Translation of the New Testament from the Original Greek by Thomas Haweis)
1833 And they came with haste, and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. (Webster Version - by Noah Webster)
1835 And hastening thither, they found Mary and Joseph with the babe, who lay in the manger. (Living Oracles by Alexander Campbell)
1849 And they came with speed, and found Mariam, and Jauseph, and the infant who was laid in the manger; (Etheridge Translation by John Etheridge)
1850 (King James Version by Committee)
1851 (Murdock Translation)
1855 Calvin Bible by the Calvin Translation Society
1858 And they came in haste, and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in the manger. (The New Testament Translated from the Original Greek by Leicester Sawyer)
1865 And they came having made haste, and they found the both Mary and the Joseph, and the babe lying in the manger. (The Emphatic Diaglott by Benjamin Wilson)
1865 And they came with haste, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in the manger. (The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 1865 by American Bible Union)
1869 And they came with haste, and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in the manger. (Noyes Translation by George Noyes)
1873 And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. (King James Version) by Frederick Scrivener)
1885 And they came with haste, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in the manger. (Revised Version also called English Revised Version - Charles Ellicott editor)
1890 And they came with haste, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in the manger; (Darby Version 1890 by John Darby)
1898 And they came, having hasted, and found both Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in the manger, (Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young)
1901 And they came with haste, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in the manger. (American Standard Version - Philip Schaff)
1902 And they came, with haste, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in the manger. (The Emphasised Bible Rotherham Version)
1902 They went making haste, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in the manger. (Translation of the New Testament from the Original Greek by William Godbey)
1904 And, making haste, they went, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the Babe lying in the manger. (The New Testament: Revised and Translated by Adolphus Worrell)
1904 So they went quickly, and found Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in a manger; (Twentieth Century New Testament by Ernest Malan and Mary Higgs)
1911 (Syrus Scofield)
1912 So they made haste and came and found Mary and Joseph, with the babe lying in the manger. (Weymouth New Testament)
1918 And they came in haste, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in the stall. (The New Testament Translated from the Sinaitic Manuscript by Henry Anderson)
1923 (Edgar Goodspeed)
1982 (New King James Version) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson.
1984 (New International Version)(NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.®
1995 (New American Standard Bible) NASB (©1995)
1999 (American King James Version)AKJV
2000 (King James 2000 Bible©)n
2005 (Today’s New International Version)
(BBE)
2009 (Holman Christian Standard Bible)(HCSB) Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville Tennessee. All rights reserved.
(21st Century King James Version) Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc.
(Common English Bible) Copyright © 2011 by Common English Bible
(GOD’S WORD Translation)(GW) Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
(Contemporary English Version)(CEV) Copyright © 1995 by American Bible Society
(New Living Translation)(NLT) Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright© 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013 by Tyndale House Foundation.
(Amplified Bible) Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation
(The Message) (MSG) Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson
(New International Reader's Version) (NIRV) Copyright © 1995, 1996, 1998, 2014 by Biblica, Inc.®.
(Wycliffe New Testament)

Foreign Language Versions

Afrikaans

1933 (Ta Biblia Ta Logia - J. D. du Toit, E. E. van Rooyen, J. D. Kestell, H. C. M. Fourie, and BB Keet
1953
1982 Paraphrase - Die Lewende Bybel, Christelike Uitgewersmaatskappy (CUM)
1982 South African Bible Society - E. P. Groenewald, A. H. van Zyl, P. A. Verhoef, J. L. Helberg, and W. Kempen
1983 © Bybelgenootskap van Suid Afrika
2001 The Nuwe Wêreld-vertaling van die Heilige Skrif is an Afrikaans translation of the 1984 English translation of the Bible by the Watchtower Society.
2002 Die Boodskap
2002 DieBybel@Kinders.co.za - Gert Prinsloo, Phil Botha, Willem Boshoff, Hennie Stander, Dirk Human, Stephan Joubert, and Jan van der Watt.
2006 The Nuwe Lewende Vertaling (literally "New Living Translation")
2008 Bybel vir Almal - South African Bible Society, Bart Oberholzer, Bernard Combrink, Hermie van Zyl, Francois Tolmie, Christo van der Merwe, Rocco Hough en Elmine Roux.
2014 Direct Translation, South African Bible Society
2014 Afrikaans Standard Version, CUM Books

Akan

Albabian

Amuzgo de Guerrero

1973 Amuzgo de Guerrero (AMU) Copyright © 1973, 1999 by La Liga Biblica
1999

Armenian

Arabic

1516
1591
1616
1622
1671 Biblia Arabica. de propaganda fide. Arabic and Latin Bible printed in Rome by Abraham Ecchellensis and Louis Maracci
فجاءوا مسرعين ووجدوا مريم ويوسف والطفل مضجعا في المذود. (Arabic Smith & Van Dyke)
1988 Arabic Life Application Bible (ALAB) Copyright © 1988 by Biblica
2009 Arabic Bible: Easy-to-Read Version (ERV-AR) Copyright © 2009 by World Bible Translation Center

Aramaic/Syriac

(Aramaic Peshitta)

Basque

1571 Eta ethor citecen lehiatuqui, eta eriden citzaten Maria eta Ioseph, eta haourtchoa mangederán eçarria.

Bulgarian

1940 (1940 Bulgarian Bible)
(Лука 2:16) (Bulgarian Bible)

Cherokee

1860 Cherokee New Testament (CHR)

Chinese

1 (Chinese Union Version (Simplified))
1 (Chinese Union Version (Traditional))
2:16 (Chinese King James Version)

Croatian

Czech

1613

Danish

Dutch

1619

Esperanto

Finnish

French

Et ils allerent en hate, et ils trouverent Marie et Joseph, et le petit enfant couche dans la creche. (French Darby)
1744 Ils allèrent donc à grand hâte, et ils trouvèrent Marie et Joseph, et le petit enfant couché dans une crèche. (Martin 1744)
1744 (Ostervald 1744)
1864 (Augustin Crampon)
1910
2006 (King James Française)

German

1545 (Luther 1545)
1871 (Elberfelder 1871)
1912 Und sie kamen eilend und fanden beide, Maria und Joseph, dazu das Kind in der Krippe liegen. (Luther 1912)

Greek

1904 (Greek Orthodox (B. Antoniades))
Modern Greek (Trinitarian Bible Society)

Hungarian

Indonesian

Italian

1649 E vennero in fretta, e trovarono Maria, e Giuseppe, e il fanciullino, che giaceva nella mangiatoia. (Giovanni Diodati Bible 1649)
1927 E andarono in fretta, e trovarono Maria e Giuseppe ed il bambino giacente nella mangiatoia; (Riveduta Bible 1927)

Japanese

1928 (Naoji Nagai)

Kabyle

Khmer

1928

Latin

et venerunt festinantes et invenerunt Mariam et Ioseph et infantem positum in praesepio Latin Vulgate
1527 (Erasmus 1527)
1527 (Erasmus Vulgate 1527)
1565 (Beza)
1598 (Beza)

Latvian

Maori

1833
1837
1858
1868 (Formal translation based on the Greek 'Received Text': Trinitarian Bible Society)
1833
1952

Norwegian

1930

Pidgin

1996 (Pidgin King Jems)

Portugese

Potawatomi

1833 (Potawatomi Matthew and Acts)

Romainian

1551 (Slavic-Romanian Gospel)
1561 (Coresi's Gospel)
1570 (The Braşov Psalm Book) Psalms Only
1582 (Palia from Orăştie)
1648 (The New Testament of Alba Iulia)
1688 (Biblia de la Bucureşti - Bucharest Bible)
1911 (Nitzulescu - British and Foreign Bible Society)
1921 (Cornilescu)
1924 (Cornilescu - British and Foreign Bible Society)
1989 (Gute Botschaft Verlag)
2010 (Biblia Traducerea Fidela în limba româna - Textus Receptus Based)
2013 (Biblia Traducerea Fidela în limba română - based upon the Textus Receptus / King James Version)
2014 (Biblia Traducerea Fidela în limba română - based upon the Textus Receptus / King James Version)
2014 (Cornilescu 90th anniversary definitive edition - British and Foreign Bible Society)

Russian

1876 И, поспешив, пришли и нашли Мариюи Иосифа, и Младенца, лежащего в яслях. Russian Synodal Version
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Sanskrit

1851

Shur

Spanish

See Also Bible translations (Spanish)

1543 (Francisco de Enzinas New Testament)
1556 (Juan Perez de Pineda New Testament and book of Psalms)
1569 (Sagradas Escrituras)
1814 Valera Revision
1817 Valera Revision
1831 Valera Revision
1858 Reina Valera
1862 Valera Revision
1865 Valera Revision (American Bible Society Revisión)
1869 Valera Revision
1909 (Reina-Valera) Antigua Spanish Bible
1960 Versión Reina-Valera (Eugene Nida )
1987 Translation from English. Publisher: Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society.
1994 Nuevo Testamento versión Recobro
1997 (La Biblia de las Américas) (©1997)
1999 Nueva Versión Internacional (NVI)
2002 (1602 Purificada)
2009 Santa Biblia: Reina-Valera
1 (Reina Valera Gómez)

Swahili

Basi, wakaenda mbio, wakamkuta Maria na Yosefu na yule mtoto mchanga amelazwa horini.

Swedish

1917 Och de skyndade åstad dit och funno Maria och Josef, och barnet som låg i krubban. (Swedish - Svenska 1917)

Tagalog

1905 At sila'y dalidaling nagsiparoon at nasumpungan kapuwa si Maria at si Jose, at ang sanggol na nakahiga sa pasabsaban. (Ang Dating Biblia 1905)

Thai

(Thai KJV)

Turkish

Ukrainian

Urdu

1878 (Hindustani Roman Script)
1938 (Urdu Revised Version. British and Foreign Bible Society, 1938)
2016 (Urdu Bible)

Vietnamese

1934 Vậy, họ vội vàng đi đến đó, thấy Ma-ri, Giô-sép, và thấy con trẻ đang nằm trong máng cỏ. (Lu-ca 2:16 Vietnamese Bible) (VIET)

Welsh

1567 (William Salesbury, printed in 1567 by Humphrey Toy)
1588 (William Morgan)
1620 (William Morgan)
1824
1988 (New Welsh Bible)
2004
2011 (beibl.net 2011 by Arfon Jones)

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