Genesis 40:19
Modern Translations
New International Version
Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and impale your body on a pole. And the birds will eat away your flesh."

New Living Translation
Three days from now Pharaoh will lift you up and impale your body on a pole. Then birds will come and peck away at your flesh.”

English Standard Version
In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head—from you!—and hang you on a tree. And the birds will eat the flesh from you.”

Berean Study Bible
Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.”

New American Standard Bible
within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head from you and will hang you on a wooden post, and the birds will eat your flesh off you.”

NASB 1995
within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head from you and will hang you on a tree, and the birds will eat your flesh off you."

NASB 1977
within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head from you and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh off you.”

Amplified Bible
within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head and will hang you on a tree (gallows, pole), and [you will not so much as be given a burial, but] the birds will eat your flesh.”

Christian Standard Bible
In just three days Pharaoh will lift up your head—from off you—and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh from your body.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
In just three days Pharaoh will lift up your head--from off you--and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh from your body."

Contemporary English Version
and in three days the king will cut off your head. He will hang your body on a pole, and birds will come and peck at it.

Good News Translation
In three days the king will release you--and have your head cut off! Then he will hang your body on a pole, and the birds will eat your flesh."

GOD'S WORD® Translation
In the next three days Pharaoh will cut off your head and hang your dead body on a pole. The birds will eat the flesh from your bones."

International Standard Version
Within three more days, Pharaoh will behead you and hang you on gallows, where birds will eat your flesh from you."

NET Bible
In three more days Pharaoh will decapitate you and impale you on a pole. Then the birds will eat your flesh from you."
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

New King James Version
Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head from you and hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from you.”

King James 2000 Bible
Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up your head from off you, and shall hang you on a tree; and the birds shall eat your flesh from off you.

New Heart English Bible
Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and impale you on a pole, and the birds will eat your flesh off you."

World English Bible
Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you."

American King James Version
Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up your head from off you, and shall hang you on a tree; and the birds shall eat your flesh from off you.

American Standard Version
within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

A Faithful Version
Yet within three days Pharaoh shall lift up your head from off you, and shall hang you on a tree. And the birds shall eat your flesh from off you."

Darby Bible Translation
In yet three days will Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and hang thee on a tree; and the birds will eat thy flesh from off thee.

English Revised Version
within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

Webster's Bible Translation
Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Within three dayes shall Pharaoh take thine head from thee, & shal hang thee on a tree, and the birdes shall eate thy flesh from off thee.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
(40:18) For within three dayes shall Pharao take thy head from thee, and shall hang thee on a tree, and the birdes shall eate thy fleshe from of thee.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
and after thre dayes shall Pharao take the, and hange the vpon the galowe, and the foules shal eate thy flesh from of ye.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
for this daye .iij. dayes shall Pharao take thy heade from the and shall hange the on a tree and the byrdes shall eate thy flesh from of the.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
yet, within three days Pharaoh lifts up your head from off you, and has hanged you on a tree, and the birds have eaten your flesh from off you.”

Young's Literal Translation
yet, within three days doth Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and hath hanged thee on a tree, and the birds have eaten thy flesh from off thee.'

Smith's Literal Translation
Yet in three days, Pharaoh will lift up thy head above thee, and hang thee upon a tree, and the birds shall eat thy flesh from thee.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
After which Pharao will take thy hand from thee, and hang thee on a cross, and the birds shall tear thy flesh.

Catholic Public Domain Version
after which Pharaoh will carry away your head, and also suspend you from a cross, and the birds will tear your flesh.”

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
After three days Pharaoh will take your head from you and he will hang you on a tree and a bird will eat your flesh from you.

Lamsa Bible
After three days Pharaoh shall have you beheaded, and then shall crucify you on a tree, and the birds of prey shall eat your flesh from off you.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.'

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Yet three days, and Pharao shall take away thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree, and the birds of the sky shall eat thy flesh from off thee.
















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