Luke 2:12

1380 (Wyclif's Bible by John Wycliffe)
1395 And this is a tokene to you; ye schulen fynde a yong child wlappid in clothis, and leid in a cratche. (Wyclif's Bible by John Wycliffe)
1534 And take this for a signe: ye hall fynde ye chylde swadled and layed in a mager. (Tyndale Bible by William Tyndale)
1535 And take this for a token: Ye shal fynde the babe swadled, and layed in a maunger. (Coverdale Bible)
1539 (Great Bible First Edition - Miles Coverdale)
1540 And take this for a sygne: ye shall fynde the childe wrapped in swadlinge clothes, & layed in a manger. (Great Bible Second Edition - Miles Coverdale)
1549 And take this for a sygne: ye shall fynde the chylde swadled and layed in a maunger. (Matthew's Bible - John Rogers)
1557 (Geneva 1557) by William Whittingham
1560
1568 And take this for a signe: Ye shal finde the childe wrapped in swadling clothes, and layde in a manger. (Bishop's Bible First Edition)
1572 (Bishop's Bible)
1582 (Rheims 1582)
1587 And this shalbe a signe to you, Yee shall finde the babe swadled, and laid in a cratch. (Geneva Bible) by William Whittingham (Geneva Bible) by William Whittingham
1599 (Geneva Bible) by William Whittingham
1611 And this shall be a signe vnto you; yee shall find the babe wrapped in swadling clothes lying in a manger. (King James Version)
1729 and by this sign shall you know him; you will find the babe swathed, lying in a manger. (Mace New Testament)
1745 And let this be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swadling clothes, in a manger. (Mr. Whiston's Primitive New Testament)
1762 (King James Version)
1769 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. (King James Version - Benjamin Blayney)
1770 And this shall be a sign to you, Ye shall find the child wrapped in swaddling bands lying in a manger. (Worsley Version by John Worsley)
1790 And this shall be a sign to you: Ye shall find the babe, wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. (Wesley Version by John Wesley)
1795 And this shall be a sign for you; Ye shall find the babe in swaddling-clothes, lying in a manger. (A Translation of the New Testament from the Original Greek by Thomas Haweis)
1833 And this shall be a sign to you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling-clothes, lying in a manger. (Webster Version - by Noah Webster)
1835 And by this you shall know him; you shall find a babe in swaddling bands, lying in a manger. (Living Oracles by Alexander Campbell)
1849 And this is to you the sign, You shall find the infant wrapped in bandages, and laid in a 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 this shall be a sign to you. You shall find the babe wrapped in bandages, lying in a manger. (The New Testament Translated from the Original Greek by Leicester Sawyer)
1865 And this to you the sign: You shall find a babe having been swathed lying in a manger. (The Emphatic Diaglott by Benjamin Wilson)
1865 And this shall be to you the sign: Ye will find a babe wrapped in swathing bands, lying in a manger. (The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 1865 by American Bible Union)
1869 And this shall be the sign to you: Ye shall find a babe wrapped in swathing–clothes, [lying] in a manger. (Noyes Translation by George Noyes)
1873 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. (King James Version) by Frederick Scrivener)
1885 And this [is] the sign unto you; Ye shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, and lying in a manger. (Revised Version also called English Revised Version - Charles Ellicott editor)
1890 And this is the sign to you: ye shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling-clothes, and lying in a manger. (Darby Version 1890 by John Darby)
1898 and this `is' to you the sign: Ye shall find a babe wrapped up, lying in the manger.' (Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young)
1901 And this `is' the sign unto you: Ye shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, and lying in a manger. (American Standard Version - Philip Schaff)
1902 And, this, to you is, a sign: Ye shall find a babe, wrapped in swaddling clothes, and lying in a manger. (The Emphasised Bible Rotherham Version)
1902 And this shall be the sign unto you; you shall find an infant lying in a manger, wrapped in swaddling clothes. (Translation of the New Testament from the Original Greek by William Godbey)
1904 And this is the sign to you: ye will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, and lying in a manger." (The New Testament: Revised and Translated by Adolphus Worrell)
1904 And this shall be the sign for you. You will find the infant swathed, and lying in a manger." (Twentieth Century New Testament by Ernest Malan and Mary Higgs)
1911 (Syrus Scofield)
1912 And this is the token for you: you will find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger." (Weymouth New Testament)
1918 And this shall be a sign to you: you shall find a babe swathed in a 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
وهذه لكم العلامة تجدون طفلا مقمطا مضجعا في مذود. (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 haur vkanen duçue seignale, eridenen baituçue haourra bandatoz trochatua, mangederán eçarria.

Bulgarian

1940 (1940 Bulgarian Bible)
(Лука 2:12) (Bulgarian Bible)

Cherokee

1860 Cherokee New Testament (CHR)

Chinese

1 (Chinese Union Version (Simplified))
1 (Chinese Union Version (Traditional))
2:12 (Chinese King James Version)

Croatian

Czech

1613

Danish

Dutch

1619

Esperanto

Finnish

French

Et ceci en est le signe pour vous, c'est que vous trouverez un petit enfant emmaillote et couche dans une creche. (French Darby)
1744 Et c'est ici la marque à laquelle vous le reconnaîtrez, c'est que vous trouverez le petit enfant emmailloté, et 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 das habt zum Zeichen: ihr werdet finden das Kind in Windeln gewickelt und in einer Krippe liegen. (Luther 1912)

Greek

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

Hungarian

Indonesian

Italian

1649 E questo ve ne sarà il segno: voi troverete il fanciullino fasciato, coricato nella mangiatoia. (Giovanni Diodati Bible 1649)
1927 E questo vi servirà di segno: troverete un bambino fasciato e coricato in una mangiatoia. (Riveduta Bible 1927)

Japanese

1928 (Naoji Nagai)

Kabyle

Khmer

1928

Latin

et hoc vobis signum invenietis infantem pannis involutum et 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 вот вам знак: вы найдете Младенца в пеленах, лежащего в яслях. Russian Synodal Version
Phonetically:

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

Na hiki kitakuwa kitambulisho kwenu: mtamkuta mtoto mchanga amevikwa nguo za kitoto, amelazwa horini."

Swedish

1917 Och detta skall för eder vara tecknet: I skolen finna ett nyfött barn, som ligger lindat i en krubba.» (Swedish - Svenska 1917)

Tagalog

1905 At ito ang sa inyo'y magiging pinakatanda: Masusumpungan ninyo ang isang sanggol na nababalot ng lampin, at nakahiga sa isang 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 Nầy là dấu cho các ngươi nhìn nhận Ngài: Các ngươi sẽ gặp một con trẻ bọc bằng khăn, nằm trong máng cỏ. (Lu-ca 2:12 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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