Luke 2:12 in every translation
Leer en españolThe same verse in each translation we publish, grouped by language and by the tradition that made it. Numbering is matched for each text (for example, Psalms in the Septuagint).
English
Catholic
DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
And this shall be a sign unto you. You shall find the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes, and laid in a manger.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version
And this will be a sign for you: you will find the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.”
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding trough.”
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding trough.”
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
And this [shall be] a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
And this [is ]the sign unto you; Ye shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, and lying in a manger.
MSB Majority Standard Bible
And this will be the sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”
BSB Berean Standard Bible
And this will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
And this [is] the sign unto you: Ye shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, and lying in a manger.
LSV Literal Standard Version
And this [is] the sign to you: you will find a Baby wrapped up, lying in the manger.”
Read in context · Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/englsv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Darby Darby Translation
And this is the sign to you: ye shall find a babe wrapped in swaddling-clothes, and lying in a manger.
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
And this [shall be] a sign to you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling-clothes, lying in a manger.
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
And this shalbe a signe to you, Yee shall finde the babe swadled, and laid in a cratch.
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
This is the sign that will be given to you: You will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth and lying in a manger.”
Read in context · Unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engULB/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tyndale Tyndale New Testament (1534)
And take this for a signe: ye hall fynde the chylde swadled and layed in a manger.
Individual translator
YLT Young's Literal Translation
and this [is] to you the sign: Ye shall find a babe wrapped up, lying in the manger.'
FBV Free Bible Version
You will recognize him by this sign: you will find the child wrapped in strips of cloth and lying in a manger.”
Read in context · Free Bible Version. Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engfbv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scholarly edition
BBE Bible in Basic English
And this is the sign to you: you will see a young child folded in linen, in the place where the cattle have their food.
Spanish
Catholic
Scío Scío de San Miguel New Testament (1797)
Y ésta os será la señal: Hallaréis al Niño envuelto en pañales, y echado en un pesebre.
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
Y esto os [será] por señal: hallaréis al niño envuelto en pañales, echado en un pesebre.
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
Se darán cuenta de que es él, porque lo encontrarán envuelto en pañales y acostado en un pesebre».
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Esto será para ustedes la señal: Hallarán a un Niño envuelto en pañales y acostado en un pesebre.
Read in context · Palabra de Dios para ti © 2020 Asociación Bíblica Latinoamericana. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spapddpt/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Lo reconocerán por esta señal: encontrarán al niño envuelto en tiras de tela y acostado en un pesebre”.
Read in context · Versión Biblia Libre. Copyright © 2018-2020 Jonathan Gallagher y Shelly Barrios de Avila. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spavbl/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Esta será la señal para ustedes: encontrarán a un niño envuelto en pañales y acostado en un pesebre.
Read in context · La Biblia en Español Sencillo, traducida y editada por Irma Flores (AudioBiblia.org).
Greek
Orthodox
PT1904 Patriarchal Text 1904 (accented, eBible edition)
καὶ τοῦτο ὑμῖν τὸ σημεῖον· εὑρήσετε βρέφος ἐσπαργανωμένον, κείμενον ἐν φάτνῃ.
PT Patriarchal Text (Antoniades 1904/1912)
και τουτο υμιν το σημειον· ευρησετε βρεφος εσπαργανωμενον, κειμενον εν φατνη.
Read in context · Patriarchal Text, Antoniades 1904/1912 edition, verified by Maurice A. Robinson and Jussi Ala-Konni (https://github.com/byztxt/greektext-antoniades). Public domain.
Individual translator
TR Textus Receptus (Boyd collation)
Καὶ τοῦτο ὑμῖν τὸ σημεῖον· εὑρήσετε βρέφος ἐσπαργανωμένον, κείμενον ἐν τῇ φάτνῃ.
Scholarly edition
RP2018 Byzantine Textform (Robinson-Pierpont 2018)
και τουτο υμιν το σημειον ευρησετε βρεφοσ εσπαργανωμενον κειμενον εν φατνη
Nestle 1904 Nestle Greek New Testament (1904)
καὶ τοῦτο ὑμῖν σημεῖον, εὑρήσετε βρέφος ἐσπαργανωμένον καὶ κείμενον ἐν φάτνῃ.
SBLGNT SBL Greek New Testament
καὶ τοῦτο ὑμῖν ⸀τὸ σημεῖον, εὑρήσετε βρέφος ἐσπαργανωμένον ⸀καὶ κείμενον ἐν φάτνῃ.
Read in context · The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition. Copyright 2010 by the Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/grcsbl/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate
Et hoc vobis signum: invenietis infantem pannis involutum, et positum in præsepio.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
и҆ сѐ ва́мъ зна́менїе: ѡ҆брѧ́щете млⷣнца пови́та, лежа́ща въ ꙗ҆́слехъ.
Read in context · Church Slavonic text: Ponomar Project (github.com/typiconman/ponomar), © 2006–2018 Aleksandr Andreev and others, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Changes for this site (2026-10-18): lectionary pericope markers, marginal glosses and the closing note of Genesis removed, Psalm verses renumbered to the Russian Synodal numbering, joined verses noted; the words are unchanged.
Russian
Orthodox
Synodal Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
и вот вам знак: вы найдете Младенца в пеленах, лежащего в яслях.
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Και τούτο θέλει είσθαι το σημείον εις εσάς· θέλετε ευρεί βρέφος εσπαργανωμένον, κείμενον εν τη φάτνη.
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
И ето вам знака: Наћи ћете дете повито где лежи у јаслама.
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
I eto vam znaka: Naći ćete dete povito gde leži u jaslama.
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
وَهَذِهِ لَكُمُ ٱلْعَلَامَةُ: تَجِدُونَ طِفْلًا مُقَمَّطًا مُضْجَعًا فِي مِذْوَدٍ».
Not in these translations (5)
Brenton, LXXUP, JPS, LXX, WLC