Luke 2:12

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“And this will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.””

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BSBPD

“And this will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“And this is the sign unto you: Ye shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, and lying in a manger.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“and this <FI>is<Fi> to you the sign: Ye shall find a babe wrapped up, lying in the manger.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Luke 2:12 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 3:12“I will surely be with you,” God said, “and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, all of you will worship God on this mountain.”
  2. 1 Samuel 2:34And this sign shall come to you concerning your two sons Hophni and Phinehas: They will both die on the same day.
  3. 1 Samuel 10:2When you leave me today, you will find two men at Rachel’s tomb in Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you seek have been found, and now your father has stopped worrying about the donkeys and started worrying about you, asking, “What should I do about my son?”’
  4. 2 Kings 19:29And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
  5. 2 Kings 20:8Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?”
  6. Psalms 22:6But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
  7. Isaiah 7:11“Ask for a sign from the LORD your God, whether from the depths of Sheol or the heights of heaven.”
  8. Isaiah 7:14Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.
  9. Isaiah 53:1Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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