Parallel Verses
An Understandable Version
Or, if he asks [him] for an egg, will give him a scorpion [instead]? [Note: While at rest a scorpion rolls up in a ball that resembles an egg].
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
Or if he asks for an egg, would he give him a scorpion?
A Conservative Version
Or if he should ask for an egg, will he give him a scorpion?
American Standard Version
Or if he shall ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion?
Amplified
Anderson New Testament
Or if he ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion?
Bible in Basic English
Or for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
Common New Testament
Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
Daniel Mace New Testament
or instead of an egg will he offer him a scorpion?
Darby Translation
or if also he shall ask an egg, shall give him a scorpion?
Godbey New Testament
Or indeed shall he ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion?
Goodspeed New Testament
Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
John Wesley New Testament
Or if he ask a fish, for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion?
Julia Smith Translation
Or also if he ask an egg, he will not give him a scorpion.
King James 2000
Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Or also, [if] he will ask for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
Modern King James verseion
Or if he shall ask for an egg, will he give him a scorpion?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Or if he ask an egg: will he offer him a scorpion?
Moffatt New Testament
Or, if asked for an egg, will he hand him a scorpion?
Montgomery New Testament
"Or if he asks for an egg, will offer him a scorpion?
NET Bible
Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
New Heart English Bible
Or if he asks for an egg, he won't give him a scorpion, will he?
Noyes New Testament
or, if he ask for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
Sawyer New Testament
or if he asks also for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
The Emphasized Bible
Or shall also ask, an egg, who will give him, a scorpion?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
or if he ask also an egg, will he give him a scorpion?
Twentieth Century New Testament
Or, if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
Webster
Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
Weymouth New Testament
or if he asks for an egg, will offer him a scorpion?
Williams New Testament
Or, if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
World English Bible
Or if he asks for an egg, he won't give him a scorpion, will he?
Worrell New Testament
or if he shall ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion?
Worsley New Testament
will he give him a scorpion?
Youngs Literal Translation
and if he may ask an egg, will he present to him a scorpion?
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Luke 11:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Ask, Seek, Knock
11 And what father among you, whose son asks [him] {{Some ancient manuscripts add for a loaf of bread, will give him a stone [instead]? Or, [if he asks]}} for a fish, will give him a snake [instead]? 12 Or, if he asks [him] for an egg, will give him a scorpion [instead]? [Note: While at rest a scorpion rolls up in a ball that resembles an egg]. 13 If then you know how to give good gifts to your children, even though you are sinful [human beings], how much more [likely] is it that your Father in heaven will give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?"
Names
Cross References
Luke 10:19
See, I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions [i.e., to receive protection from accidental contact with venomous creatures. See Acts 28:5] and [to have authority] over all the power of the enemy [i.e., Satan. See verse 18]. And nothing at all will hurt you.
Revelation 9:10
And they had tails like scorpions with stingers, and in their tails they had the power to inflict harm upon people for five months.