Revelation 5:3
Modern Translations
New International Version
But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it.

New Living Translation
But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll and read it.

English Standard Version
And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it,

Berean Study Bible
But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look inside it.

New American Standard Bible
And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it.

NASB 1995
And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the book or to look into it.

NASB 1977
And no one in heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look into it.

Amplified Bible
And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth [in Hades, the realm of the dead] was able to open the scroll or look into it.

Christian Standard Bible
But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or even to look in it.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or even to look in it.

Contemporary English Version
No one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look inside it.

Good News Translation
But there was no one in heaven or on earth or in the world below who could open the scroll and look inside it.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
No one in heaven, on earth, or under the earth could open the scroll or look inside it.

International Standard Version
No one in heaven, on earth, or under the earth could open the scroll or look inside it.

NET Bible
But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look into it.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.

New King James Version
And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll, or to look at it.

King James 2000 Bible
And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the scroll, neither to look thereon.

New Heart English Bible
No one in heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the scroll, or to look in it.

World English Bible
No one in heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look in it.

American King James Version
And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.

American Standard Version
And no one in the heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look thereon.

A Faithful Version
But no one in heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth was able to open the book, or to look inside it.

Darby Bible Translation
And no one was able in the heaven, or upon the earth, or underneath the earth, to open the book, or to regard it.

English Revised Version
And no one in the heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look thereon.

Webster's Bible Translation
And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look upon it.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And no man in heauen, nor in earth, neither vnder the earth, was able to open the Booke, neither to looke thereon.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And no man in heauen, nor in earth, neither vnder the earth, was able to open the booke, neither to loke theron.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
And no ma in heaue ner in earth, nether vnder ye earth, was able to ope ye boke, nether to loke thereon.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
And no man in heven ner in erth nether vnder the erth was able to open the boke nether to loke thereon.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And no one was able in Heaven, nor on the earth, nor under the earth, to open the scroll, nor to behold it.

Berean Literal Bible
And no one in heaven, nor upon the earth, nor under the earth, was able to open the scroll, nor to see it.

Young's Literal Translation
and no one was able in the heaven, nor upon the earth, nor under the earth, to open the scroll, nor to behold it.

Smith's Literal Translation
And none was able in heaven, nor upon earth, nor under the earth, to open the book, nor to look upon it.

Literal Emphasis Translation
And no one was able in heaven, nor upon the earth, nor under the earth to open the book, nor look at it.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And no man was able, neither in heaven, nor on earth, nor under the earth, to open the book, nor to look on it.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And no one was able, neither in heaven, nor on earth, nor under the earth, to open the book, nor to gaze upon it.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And there was none able in Heaven or in Earth, nor any under The Earth, to open the scroll and to open its seals and look upon it.

Lamsa Bible
And no man in heaven above, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look on it.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
And no one in heaven, or on earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look upon it.

Godbey New Testament
And no one in the heaven, nor upon the earth, nor beneath the earth, was able to open the book, and to look into it.

Haweis New Testament
And no man was able in heaven, nor upon earth, nor under the earth, to open the book, nor to look into it.

Mace New Testament
and no one in heaven, nor in earth, nor under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look therein.

Weymouth New Testament
But no one in Heaven, or on earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book or look into it.

Worrell New Testament
And no one in Heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book or to look upon it.

Worsley New Testament
And no one in heaven, nor on earth, nor under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look into it:
















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