Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
I looked when He broke the sixth seal, and there was a great
King James Version
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
Holman Bible
Then I saw Him open
International Standard Version
Then I saw the lamb open the sixth seal. There was a powerful earthquake. The sun turned as black as sackcloth made of hair, and the full moon turned as red as blood.
A Conservative Version
And I looked when he opened the sixth seal, and a great earthquake occurred, and the sun became black as hairy sackcloth, and the whole moon became as blood.
American Standard Version
And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the whole moon became as blood;
Amplified
I looked when He (the Lamb) broke open the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as
An Understandable Version
Then I looked as the Lamb broke open the sixth seal, and there [I saw] a great earthquake; the sun turned as black as sackcloth made out of [goat] hair, and the entire moon turned [as red] as blood.
Anderson New Testament
And I saw when he had opened the sixth seal; and there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood:
Bible in Basic English
And I saw when the sixth stamp was undone, and there was a great earth-shock; and the sun became black as haircloth, and all the moon became as blood;
Common New Testament
I looked when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood;
Daniel Mace New Testament
And when I beheld the opening of the sixth seal, there was a great earthquake: the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; the stars
Darby Translation
And I saw when it opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as hair sackcloth, and the whole moon became as blood,
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
And I saw, when he opened the sixth seal, and there was an earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair; and the moon became as blood;
Godbey New Testament
And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the full moon became like blood;
Goodspeed New Testament
When he broke the sixth seal I saw that there was a great earthquake. The sun turned black as sackcloth; the full moon became like blood;
John Wesley New Testament
And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake, and the sun was black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon was as blood;
Julia Smith Translation
And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and, behold, there was a great shaking; and the sun was black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon was as blood;
King James 2000
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
Lexham Expanded Bible
And I watched when he opened the sixth seal, and a great earthquake took place, and the sun became black like sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood,
Modern King James verseion
And when He had opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake. And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And I beheld when he opened the sixth seal, and lo there was a great earthquake, and the sun was as black as sackcloth made of hair. And the moon waxed even as blood:
Moffatt New Testament
And when he opened the sixth seal, I looked; and a great earthquake took place, the sun turned black as sackcloth, the full moon turned like blood,
Montgomery New Testament
And I looked when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black, like sackcloth, and the full moon became like blood;
NET Bible
Then I looked when the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and a huge earthquake took place; the sun became as black as sackcloth made of hair, and the full moon became blood red;
New Heart English Bible
I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood.
Noyes New Testament
And I saw when he had opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the whole moon became as blood,
Sawyer New Testament
And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and all the moon became as blood,
The Emphasized Bible
And I saw, when he opened the sixth seal, that a, great earthquake, took place; and, the sun, became black as sackcloth of hair, and, the full moon, became as blood,
Thomas Haweis New Testament
And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and lo! there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
Twentieth Century New Testament
And I saw the Lamb break the sixth seal, and then there was a great earthquake. The sun became black, like sackcloth, and the moon, which was at its full, like blood.
Webster
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood:
Weymouth New Testament
When the Lamb broke the sixth seal I looked, and there was a great earthquake, and the sun became as dark as sackcloth, and the whole disc of the moon became like blood.
Williams New Testament
When He broke the sixth seal, I looked, and there was a great earthquake, and the sun turned black as sackcloth, and the full moon became like blood,
World English Bible
I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood.
Worrell New Testament
And I saw, when He opened the sixth seal, and a great earthquake took place; and the sun became black as sack-cloth of hair, and the whole moon became as blood;
Worsley New Testament
And I saw when He opened the sixth seal, and behold there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sack-cloth of hair, and the moon was red as blood;
Youngs Literal Translation
And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and lo, a great earthquake came, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood,
Themes
Heaven » Physical heavens, destruction of
Meteorology and celestial phenomena » Symbolical » Used in the revelation of john
Moon » Illustrative » (becoming blood,) of judgments
Sackcloth » Made of coarse hair
Sackcloth » Illustrative » (heavens becoming black as,) of severe judgments
Vision » Of john on the island of patmos » The earthquake and the celestial phenomena
Interlinear
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Usage: 0
Ginomai
Ginomai
γίνομαι
Ginomai
be, come to pass, be made, be done, come, become, God forbid , arise, have, be fulfilled, be married to, be preferred, not tr, , vr done
Usage: 531
Hos
ὡς
Hos
Usage: 417
References
Word Count of 38 Translations in Revelation 6:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Opening Of The First Six Seals
11
And
Cross References
Matthew 24:29
Revelation 16:18
And there were flashes of
Revelation 11:13
And in that hour there was a great
Joel 2:10
The heavens tremble,
The
And the stars lose their brightness.
Joel 3:15
And the stars lose their brightness.
Matthew 24:7
Revelation 8:5
Then the angel
1 Kings 19:11-13
So He said, “
Isaiah 13:9-10
Cruel, with fury and burning anger,
To make the land a desolation;
And He will exterminate its sinners from it.
Isaiah 24:23
For the
And His glory will be before His elders.
Isaiah 29:6
With whirlwind and tempest and the flame of a consuming fire.
Isaiah 50:3
And make sackcloth their covering.”
Isaiah 60:19-20
Nor for brightness will the moon give you light;
But you will have the
And your
Ezekiel 32:7-8
I will
I will cover the
And the moon will not give its light.
Joel 2:30-31
Blood, fire and columns of smoke.
Amos 1:1
The words of Amos, who was among the
Amos 8:9
“That I will make the
And
Haggai 2:6-7
For thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘
Haggai 2:21-22
“Speak to
Zechariah 14:5
You will flee by the valley of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel; yes, you will flee just as you fled before the
Matthew 27:45
Matthew 27:54
Matthew 28:2
And behold, a severe earthquake had occurred, for
Mark 13:24-25
Mark 15:33
Luke 23:44-45
Acts 2:19-20
And signs on the earth below,
Blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke.