Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.
Parallel translations
- KJV Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children, and peace upon Israel.
- BSB that you may see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!
- NKJV Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!
- NASB Indeed, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!
- NLT May you live to enjoy your grandchildren. May Israel have peace!
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Cross-references · 6
- Job 42:16After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.
- Gen 50:23Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.
- Isa 66:12For Yahweh says, “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you will nurse. You will be carried on her side, and will be dandled on her knees.
- Prov 17:6Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.
- Ps 125:5But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.
- Gal 1:16to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,
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