He said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.
Parallel translations
- KJV And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew me a sign that thou talkest with me.
- BSB Gideon answered, “If I have found favor in Your sight, give me a sign that it is You speaking with me.
- NKJV Then he said to Him, “If now I have found favor in Your sight, then show me a sign that it is You who talk with me.
- NASB So Gideon said to Him, “If now I have found favor in Your sight, then perform for me a sign that it is You speaking with me.
- NLT Gideon replied, “If you are truly going to help me, show me a sign to prove that it is really the Lord speaking to me.
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- Ps 86:17Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.
- Exod 33:13Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your way, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight: and consider that this nation is your people.”
- Isa 7:11“Ask a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.”
- Exod 33:16For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn’t it that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?”
- Gen 15:8–17He said, “Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?”
- Isa 38:7–8This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken.
- Judg 6:36–40Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken,
- Exod 4:1–9Moses answered, “But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, ‘Yahweh has not appeared to you.’”
- 2 Kgs 20:8–11Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What will be the sign that Yahweh will heal me, and that I will go up to Yahweh’s house the third day?”
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