Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
and this is to you the sign: Ye shall find a babe wrapped up, lying in the manger.'
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
Holman Bible
This will be the sign for you:
International Standard Version
And this will be a sign for you: You will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth and lying in a feeding trough."
A Conservative Version
And this is the sign to you: Ye will find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, and lying in a feed trough.
American Standard Version
And this is the sign unto you: Ye shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, and lying in a manger.
Amplified
And this will be a sign for you [by which you will recognize Him]: you will find a Baby wrapped in [swaddling] cloths and lying in a manger.”
An Understandable Version
And this is the sign [that will verify it] to you: You will find a baby wrapped in [linen] cloths lying in an animal's feeding trough."
Anderson New Testament
And this shall be to you the sign: you will find the babe wrapped in swathing-clothes, and lying in a stable.
Bible in Basic English
And this is the sign to you: you will see a young child folded in linen, in the place where the cattle have their food.
Common New Testament
And this will be a sign to you: you will find a babe wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger."
Daniel Mace New Testament
and by this sign shall you know him; you will find the babe swathed, lying in a manger.
Darby Translation
And this is the sign to you: ye shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling-clothes, and lying in a manger.
Godbey New Testament
And this shall be the sign unto you; you shall find an infant lying in a manger, wrapped in swaddling clothes.
Goodspeed New Testament
And this will prove it to you: You will find a baby wrapped up and lying in a manger."
John Wesley New Testament
And this shall be a sign to you; ye shall find the babe, wrapped in swaddling-clothes, lying in a manger.
Julia Smith Translation
And this the sign to you; ye shall find the babe swathed, lying in a manger.
King James 2000
And this shall be a sign unto you; You shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And this will be the sign for you: you will find the baby wrapped in strips of cloth and lying in a manger."
Modern King James verseion
And this is a sign to you. You will find the babe wrapped, lying in a manger.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And take this for a sign: ye shall find the child swaddled, and laid in a manger."
Moffatt New Testament
And here is a proof for you: you will find a baby wrapped up and lying in a stall for cattle."
Montgomery New Testament
"And this is a sign to you; You shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling-clothes lying in a manger."
NET Bible
This will be a sign for you: You will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth and lying in a manger."
New Heart English Bible
This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding trough."
Noyes New Testament
And this shall be the sign to you: Ye shall find a babe wrapped in swathingclothes, [lying] in a manger.
Sawyer New Testament
And this shall be a sign to you. You shall find the babe wrapped in bandages, lying in a manger.
The Emphasized Bible
And, this, to you is, a sign: Ye shall find a babe, wrapped in swaddling clothes, and lying in a manger.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
And this shall be a sign for you; Ye shall find the babe in swaddling-clothes, lying in a manger.
Twentieth Century New Testament
And this shall be the sign for you. You will find the infant swathed, and lying in a manger."
Webster
And this shall be a sign to you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling-clothes, lying in a manger.
Weymouth New Testament
And this is the token for you: you will find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger."
Williams New Testament
And this is proof for you: You will find a baby wrapped up and lying in a manger."
World English Bible
This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding trough."
Worrell New Testament
And this is the sign to you: ye will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, and lying in a manger."
Worsley New Testament
And this shall be a sign to you, Ye shall find the child wrapped in swaddling bands lying in a manger.
Themes
Angel (a spirit) » Functions of » Announces the birth of jesus
Angels » Announced: » The birth of Christ
Children » Treatment of, at birth
Jesus Christ » History of » Angels appear to the shepherds (in the vicinity of bethlehem)
special divine Manifestations » Signs given to confirm faith
Topics
Interlinear
Touto
Keimai
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Luke 2:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Shepherds And The Angels
11 because there was born to you to-day a Saviour -- who is Christ the Lord -- in the city of David, 12 and this is to you the sign: Ye shall find a babe wrapped up, lying in the manger.' 13 And suddenly there came with the messenger a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying,
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord Himself giveth to you a sign, Lo, the Virgin is conceiving, And is bringing forth a son, And hath called his name Immanuel,
1 Samuel 2:34
and this is to thee the sign that cometh unto thy two sons, unto Hophni and Phinehas -- in one day they die both of them;
2 Kings 19:29
And this to thee is the sign, Food of the year is the spontaneous growth, And in the second year the self-produced, And in the third year sow ye, and reap, And plant vineyards, and eat their fruits.
2 Kings 20:8
And Hezekiah saith unto Isaiah, 'What is the sign that Jehovah doth give healing to me, that I have gone up on the third day to the house of Jehovah?'
Isaiah 53:1-2
Who hath given credence to that which we heard? And the arm of Jehovah, On whom hath it been revealed?
Exodus 3:12
and He saith, 'Because I am with thee, and this is to thee the sign that I have sent thee: in thy bringing out the people from Egypt -- ye do serve God on this mount.'
1 Samuel 10:2-7
In thy going to-day from me -- then thou hast found two men by the grave of Rachel, in the border of Benjamin, at Zelzah, and they have said unto thee, The asses have been found which thou hast gone to seek; and lo, thy father hath left the matter of the asses, and hath sorrowed for you, saying, What do I do for my son?
Psalm 22:6
And I am a worm, and no man, A reproach of man, and despised of the people.
Isaiah 7:11
Ask for thee a sign from Jehovah thy God, Make deep the request, or make it high upwards.'