He said, Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.
Parallel translations
- KJV And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
- BSB “Go on your way, Daniel,” he replied, “for the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end.
- NKJV And he said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
- NASB And he said, “Go your way, Daniel, for these words will be kept secret and sealed up until the end time.
- NLT But he said, “Go now, Daniel, for what I have said is kept secret and sealed until the time of the end.
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Cross-references · 5
- Dan 12:4But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run back and forth, and knowledge shall be increased.”
- Dan 8:26The vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true: but seal up the vision; for it belongs to many days to come.
- Rev 10:4When the seven thunders sounded, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from the sky saying, “Seal up the things which the seven thunders said, and don’t write them.”
- Isa 29:11All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, “Read this, please”; and he says, “I can’t, for it is sealed:”
- Isa 8:16Wrap up the testimony. Seal the law among my disciples.
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