and two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl, and the other on the left side of it.”
Parallel translations
- KJV And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
- BSB There are also two olive trees beside it, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on its left.”
- NKJV Two olive trees are by it, one at the right of the bowl and the other at its left.”
- NASB also two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on its left side.”
- NLT And I see two olive trees, one on each side of the bowl.”
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- Rev 11:4These are the two olive trees and the two lamp stands, standing before the Lord of the earth.
- Rom 11:17But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;
- Zech 4:14Then he said, “These are the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord of the whole earth.”
- Zech 4:11–12Then I asked him, “What are these two olive trees on the right side of the lamp stand and on the left side of it?”
- Judg 9:9“But the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I stop producing my oil, with which they honor God and man by me, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’
- Rom 11:24For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
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