Parallel Verses
- The Message - Going through a long line of prophets, God has been addressing our ancestors in different ways for centuries. Recently he spoke to us directly through his Son. By his Son, God created the world in the beginning, and it will all belong to the Son at the end. This Son perfectly mirrors God, and is stamped with God’s nature. He holds everything together by what he says—powerful words!
- 新标点和合本 - 神既在古时藉着众先知多次多方地晓谕列祖，
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 古时候，上帝藉着众先知多次多方向列祖说话，
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - 古时候， 神藉着众先知多次多方向列祖说话，
- 当代译本 - 在古代，上帝曾借着先知多次多方向我们的祖先说话，
- 圣经新译本 - 神在古时候，曾经多次用种种方法，藉着先知向我们的祖先说话；
- 中文标准译本 - 过去，神在不同的时代，用不同的方式，藉着先知们对祖先说话，
- 现代标点和合本 - 神既在古时藉着众先知多次多方地晓谕列祖，
- 和合本（拼音版） - 上帝既在古时藉着众先知多次多方地晓谕列祖；
- New International Version - In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways,
- New International Reader's Version - In the past, God spoke to our people through the prophets. He spoke at many times. He spoke in different ways.
- English Standard Version - Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets,
- New Living Translation - Long ago God spoke many times and in many ways to our ancestors through the prophets.
- Christian Standard Bible - Long ago God spoke to our ancestors by the prophets at different times and in different ways.
- New American Standard Bible - God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways,
- New King James Version - God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets,
- Amplified Bible - God, having spoken to the fathers long ago in [the voices and writings of] the prophets in many separate revelations [each of which set forth a portion of the truth], and in many ways,
- American Standard Version - God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners,
- King James Version - God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
- New English Translation - After God spoke long ago in various portions and in various ways to our ancestors through the prophets,
- World English Bible - God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,
- 新標點和合本 - 神既在古時藉着眾先知多次多方地曉諭列祖，
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 古時候，上帝藉着眾先知多次多方向列祖說話，
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 古時候， 神藉着眾先知多次多方向列祖說話，
- 當代譯本 - 在古代，上帝曾藉著先知多次多方向我們的祖先說話，
- 聖經新譯本 - 神在古時候，曾經多次用種種方法，藉著先知向我們的祖先說話；
- 呂振中譯本 - 上帝既用許多階段許多方式、在往古時候、藉着眾神言人 向列祖說話，
- 中文標準譯本 - 過去，神在不同的時代，用不同的方式，藉著先知們對祖先說話，
- 現代標點和合本 - 神既在古時藉著眾先知多次多方地曉諭列祖，
- 文理和合譯本 - 昔上帝以諸先知多次多方諭列祖、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 伊昔上帝、以多方托先知、數諭我祖、今值季世、使其子諭我、
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 古時天主藉諸先知屢次多方諭列祖、
- 吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 粵若稽古、天主迭假先知之口、多方曉諭列祖；
- Nueva Versión Internacional - Dios, que muchas veces y de varias maneras habló a nuestros antepasados en otras épocas por medio de los profetas,
- 현대인의 성경 - 옛날 하나님께서는 예언자들을 통하여 여러 가지 방법으로 수없이 우리 조상 들에게 말씀하셨습니다.
- Новый Русский Перевод - Бог, многократно и многообразно говоривший в прошлом к нашим предкам через пророков,
- Восточный перевод - В прошлом Всевышний много раз и самым различным образом обращался к нашим предкам через пророков.
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - В прошлом Всевышний много раз и самым различным образом обращался к нашим предкам через пророков.
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - В прошлом Всевышний много раз и самым различным образом обращался к нашим предкам через пророков.
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - A bien des reprises et de bien des manières, Dieu a parlé autrefois à nos ancêtres par les prophètes.
- リビングバイブル - 神は昔、幻や夢や、時には直接の啓示などいろいろな方法で、預言者を通してご自分の計画を少しずつ明らかになさいました。
- Nestle Aland 28 - Πολυμερῶς καὶ πολυτρόπως πάλαι ὁ θεὸς λαλήσας τοῖς πατράσιν ἐν τοῖς προφήταις
- unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - πολυμερῶς καὶ πολυτρόπως πάλαι, ὁ Θεὸς, λαλήσας τοῖς πατράσιν ἐν τοῖς προφήταις
- Nova Versão Internacional - Há muito tempo Deus falou muitas vezes e de várias maneiras aos nossos antepassados por meio dos profetas,
- Hoffnung für alle - In der Vergangenheit hat Gott immer wieder und auf vielfältige Weise durch die Propheten zu unseren Vorfahren gesprochen.
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Thời xưa, Đức Chúa Trời đã dùng các nhà tiên tri dạy bảo tổ phụ chúng ta nhiều lần nhiều cách.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ในอดีตพระเจ้าตรัสกับบรรพบุรุษของเราผ่านทางผู้เผยพระวจนะหลายครั้งหลายคราด้วยวิธีการต่างๆ
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ในสมัยก่อน พระเจ้าได้กล่าวกับบรรพบุรุษของเราโดยผ่านบรรดาผู้เผยคำกล่าวของพระเจ้าหลายครั้ง และด้วยวิธีต่างๆ กัน
Cross Reference
- Genesis 6:3 - Then God said, “I’m not going to breathe life into men and women endlessly. Eventually they’re going to die; from now on they can expect a life span of 120 years.”
- Genesis 32:24 - But Jacob stayed behind by himself, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When the man saw that he couldn’t get the best of Jacob as they wrestled, he deliberately threw Jacob’s hip out of joint.
- Genesis 32:26 - The man said, “Let me go; it’s daybreak.” Jacob said, “I’m not letting you go ’til you bless me.”
- Genesis 32:27 - The man said, “What’s your name?” He answered, “Jacob.”
- Genesis 32:28 - The man said, “But no longer. Your name is no longer Jacob. From now on it’s Israel (God-Wrestler); you’ve wrestled with God and you’ve come through.”
- Genesis 32:29 - Jacob asked, “And what’s your name?” The man said, “Why do you want to know my name?” And then, right then and there, he blessed him.
- Genesis 32:30 - Jacob named the place Peniel (God’s Face) because, he said, “I saw God face-to-face and lived to tell the story!”
- Genesis 8:15 - God spoke to Noah: “Leave the ship, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives. And take all the animals with you, the whole menagerie of birds and mammals and crawling creatures, all that swarming extravagance of life, so they can reproduce and flourish on the Earth.”
- Genesis 8:18 - Noah disembarked with his sons and wife and his sons’ wives. Then all the animals, crawling creatures, birds—every creature on the face of the Earth—left the ship family by family.
- Exodus 3:1 - Moses was shepherding the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the west end of the wilderness and came to the mountain of God, Horeb. The angel of God appeared to him in flames of fire blazing out of the middle of a bush. He looked. The bush was blazing away but it didn’t burn up.
- Exodus 3:3 - Moses said, “What’s going on here? I can’t believe this! Amazing! Why doesn’t the bush burn up?”
- Exodus 3:4 - God saw that he had stopped to look. God called to him from out of the bush, “Moses! Moses!” He said, “Yes? I’m right here!”
- Exodus 3:5 - God said, “Don’t come any closer. Remove your sandals from your feet. You’re standing on holy ground.”
- Exodus 3:6 - Then he said, “I am the God of your father: The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob.” Moses hid his face, afraid to look at God.
- Exodus 3:7 - God said, “I’ve taken a good, long look at the affliction of my people in Egypt. I’ve heard their cries for deliverance from their slave masters; I know all about their pain. And now I have come down to help them, pry them loose from the grip of Egypt, get them out of that country and bring them to a good land with wide-open spaces, a land lush with milk and honey, the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
- Exodus 3:9 - “The Israelite cry for help has come to me, and I’ve seen for myself how cruelly they’re being treated by the Egyptians. It’s time for you to go back: I’m sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the People of Israel, out of Egypt.”
- Exodus 3:11 - Moses answered God, “But why me? What makes you think that I could ever go to Pharaoh and lead the children of Israel out of Egypt?”
- Exodus 3:12 - “I’ll be with you,” God said. “And this will be the proof that I am the one who sent you: When you have brought my people out of Egypt, you will worship God right here at this very mountain.”
- Exodus 3:13 - Then Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the People of Israel and I tell them, ‘The God of your fathers sent me to you’; and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ What do I tell them?”
- Exodus 3:14 - God said to Moses, “I-AM-WHO-I-AM. Tell the People of Israel, ‘I-AM sent me to you.’”
- Exodus 3:15 - God continued with Moses: “This is what you’re to say to the Israelites: ‘God, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob sent me to you.’ This has always been my name, and this is how I always will be known.
- Exodus 3:16 - “Now be on your way. Gather the leaders of Israel. Tell them, ‘God, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, appeared to me, saying, “I’ve looked into what’s being done to you in Egypt, and I’ve determined to get you out of the affliction of Egypt and take you to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, a land brimming over with milk and honey.”’
- Exodus 3:18 - “Believe me, they will listen to you. Then you and the leaders of Israel will go to the king of Egypt and say to him: ‘God, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness where we will worship God—our God.’
- Exodus 3:19 - “I know that the king of Egypt won’t let you go unless forced to, so I’ll intervene and hit Egypt where it hurts—oh, my miracles will send them reeling!—after which they’ll be glad to send you off. I’ll see to it that this people get a hearty send-off by the Egyptians—when you leave, you won’t leave empty-handed! Each woman will ask her neighbor and any guests in her house for objects of silver and gold, for jewelry and extra clothes; you’ll put them on your sons and daughters. Oh, you’ll clean the Egyptians out!”
- Genesis 26:2 - God appeared to him and said, “Don’t go down to Egypt; stay where I tell you. Stay here in this land and I’ll be with you and bless you. I’m giving you and your children all these lands, fulfilling the oath that I swore to your father Abraham. I’ll make your descendants as many as the stars in the sky and give them all these lands. All the nations of the Earth will get a blessing for themselves through your descendants. And why? Because Abraham obeyed my summons and kept my charge—my commands, my guidelines, my teachings.”
- Genesis 28:13 - Then God was right before him, saying, “I am God, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. I’m giving the ground on which you are sleeping to you and to your descendants. Your descendants will be as the dust of the Earth; they’ll stretch from west to east and from north to south. All the families of the Earth will bless themselves in you and your descendants. Yes. I’ll stay with you, I’ll protect you wherever you go, and I’ll bring you back to this very ground. I’ll stick with you until I’ve done everything I promised you.”
- Genesis 6:13 - God said to Noah, “It’s all over. It’s the end of the human race. The violence is everywhere; I’m making a clean sweep.
- Genesis 6:14 - “Build yourself a ship from teakwood. Make rooms in it. Coat it with pitch inside and out. Make it 450 feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high. Build a roof for it and put in a window eighteen inches from the top; put in a door on the side of the ship; and make three decks, lower, middle, and upper.
- Genesis 6:17 - “I’m going to bring a flood on the Earth that will destroy everything alive under Heaven. Total destruction.
- Genesis 6:18 - “But I’m going to establish a covenant with you: You’ll board the ship, and your sons, your wife and your sons’ wives will come on board with you. You are also to take two of each living creature, a male and a female, on board the ship, to preserve their lives with you: two of every species of bird, mammal, and reptile—two of everything so as to preserve their lives along with yours. Also get all the food you’ll need and store it up for you and them.”
- Genesis 6:22 - Noah did everything God commanded him to do.
- Genesis 9:1 - God blessed Noah and his sons: He said, “Prosper! Reproduce! Fill the Earth! Every living creature—birds, animals, fish—will fall under your spell and be afraid of you. You’re responsible for them. All living creatures are yours for food; just as I gave you the plants, now I give you everything else. Except for meat with its lifeblood still in it—don’t eat that.
- Genesis 9:5 - “But your own lifeblood I will avenge; I will avenge it against both animals and other humans.
- Genesis 9:6 - Whoever sheds human blood, by humans let his blood be shed, Because God made humans in his image reflecting God’s very nature. You’re here to bear fruit, reproduce, lavish life on the Earth, live bountifully!”
- Genesis 9:8 - Then God spoke to Noah and his sons: “I’m setting up my covenant with you including your children who will come after you, along with everything alive around you—birds, farm animals, wild animals—that came out of the ship with you. I’m setting up my covenant with you that never again will everything living be destroyed by floodwaters; no, never again will a flood destroy the Earth.”
- Genesis 9:12 - God continued, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and everything living around you and everyone living after you. I’m putting my rainbow in the clouds, a sign of the covenant between me and the Earth. From now on, when I form a cloud over the Earth and the rainbow appears in the cloud, I’ll remember my covenant between me and you and everything living, that never again will floodwaters destroy all life. When the rainbow appears in the cloud, I’ll see it and remember the eternal covenant between God and everything living, every last living creature on Earth.”
- Genesis 9:17 - And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I’ve set up between me and everything living on the Earth.”
- Genesis 46:2 - God spoke to Israel in a vision that night: “Jacob! Jacob!” “Yes?” he said. “I’m listening.”
- Genesis 46:3 - God said, “I am the God of your father. Don’t be afraid of going down to Egypt. I’m going to make you a great nation there. I’ll go with you down to Egypt; I’ll also bring you back here. And when you die, Joseph will be with you; with his own hand he’ll close your eyes.”
- Acts 28:23 - They agreed on a time. When the day arrived, they came back to his home with a number of their friends. Paul talked to them all day, from morning to evening, explaining everything involved in the kingdom of God, and trying to persuade them all about Jesus by pointing out what Moses and the prophets had written about him.
- Acts 13:32 - “And we’re here today bringing you good news: the Message that what God promised the fathers has come true for the children—for us! He raised Jesus, exactly as described in the second Psalm: My Son! My very own Son! Today I celebrate you! “When he raised him from the dead, he did it for good—no going back to that rot and decay for him. That’s why Isaiah said, ‘I’ll give to all of you David’s guaranteed blessings.’ So also the psalmist’s prayer: ‘You’ll never let your Holy One see death’s rot and decay.’
- Genesis 12:1 - God told Abram: “Leave your country, your family, and your father’s home for a land that I will show you.
- Genesis 12:2 - I’ll make you a great nation and bless you. I’ll make you famous; you’ll be a blessing. I’ll bless those who bless you; those who curse you I’ll curse. All the families of the Earth will be blessed through you.”
- Luke 24:44 - Then he said, “Everything I told you while I was with you comes to this: All the things written about me in the Law of Moses, in the Prophets, and in the Psalms have to be fulfilled.”
- 1 Peter 1:10 - The prophets who told us this was coming asked a lot of questions about this gift of life God was preparing. The Messiah’s Spirit let them in on some of it—that the Messiah would experience suffering, followed by glory. They clamored to know who and when. All they were told was that they were serving you, you who by orders from heaven have now heard for yourselves—through the Holy Spirit—the Message of those prophecies fulfilled. Do you realize how fortunate you are? Angels would have given anything to be in on this!
- Joel 2:28 - “And that’s just the beginning: After that— “I will pour out my Spirit on every kind of people: Your sons will prophesy, also your daughters. Your old men will dream, your young men will see visions. I’ll even pour out my Spirit on the servants, men and women both. I’ll set wonders in the sky above and signs on the earth below: Blood and fire and billowing smoke, the sun turning black and the moon blood-red, Before the Judgment Day of God, the Day tremendous and awesome. Whoever calls, ‘Help, God!’ gets help. On Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be a great rescue—just as God said. Included in the survivors are those that God calls.”