Revelation 11:9 — Compare Translations

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English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

and they shall behold -- they of the peoples, and tribes, and tongues, and nations -- their dead bodies three days and a half, and their dead bodies they shall not suffer to be put into tombs,

English ASV

And from among the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations do men look upon their dead bodies three days and a half, and suffer not their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.

English Amplified

For three and a half days men from the races and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and will not allow them to be put in a tomb.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

For three and a half days men from the races and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and will not allow them to be put in a tomb.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

For three and a half days all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will view their bodies and will not permit them to be laid in a tomb.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

And some of the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations will view their bodies for three and a half days and not permit their bodies to be put into a tomb.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

And [men] of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations see their body three days and a half, and they do not suffer their bodies to be put into a sepulchre.

English EASY 2024

People from everywhere in the world will look at the servants' dead bodies for three and a half days. Those are people from every nation, from every tribe and from every language. They will not agree to bury the bodies.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

People from every race of people, tribe, language, and nation will look at the bodies of the two witnesses for three and a half days. The people will refuse to bury them.

For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb,

English GNT (Good News Translation)

People from all nations, tribes, languages, and races will look at their bodies for three and a half days and will not allow them to be buried.

English God's Word - GW 1995

For 3 1/2 days some members of the people, tribes, languages, and nations will look at the witnesses' dead bodies and will not allow anyone to bury them.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

And representatives from the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations will view their bodies for three and a half days and not permit their bodies to be put into a tomb.

English KJV 1611

And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

English LSB

And those from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not permit their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

Those from every people and tribe and tongue and nation will see their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be put in graves.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

Those from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not permit their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

Those from every people, tribe, tongue, and nation will gaze on their corpses for three and a half days, and they will not allow their corpses to be buried.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

For three and a half days those from every people, tribe, nation, and language will look at their corpses, because they will not permit them to be placed in a tomb.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

For three and a half days, people from every tribe, language and nation will stare at their bodies. They will refuse to bury them.

English NIV

For three and a half days men from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial.

English NKJ 1982

Then those from the peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations will see their dead bodies three-and-a-half days, and not allow their dead bodies to be put into graves.

English NLT

And for three and a half days, all peoples, tribes, languages, and nations will come to stare at their bodies. No one will be allowed to bury them.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

For three and a half days members of the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb;

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

For three and a half days people from every ethnicity, tribe, nation, and language will see their corpses, because no one is permitted to bury them.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

For three days and a half men from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb,

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

No one will be allowed to bury them, and people from many nations will crowd around to gaze at them.

English Tyndale 1537

And they(some) of the people and kindreds, and tongues, and they of the nations, shall see their bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their bodies to be put in graves.