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Jonah 1 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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Jonah’s Disobedience

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The word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:2 - “Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and cry out against it, because their wickedness has come up before Me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:3 - But Jonah got up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. So he went down to Joppa, found a ship that was going to Tarshish, paid the fare, and [fn]boarded it to go with them to Tarshish away from the presence of the LORD.

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However, the LORD hurled a great wind on the sea and there was a great storm on the sea, so that the ship was about to [fn]break up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:5 - Then the sailors became afraid and every man cried out to his [fn]god, and they hurled the [fn]cargo which was in the ship into the sea to lighten it [fn]for them. But Jonah had gone below into the stern of the ship, had lain down, and fallen sound asleep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:6 - So the captain approached him and said, “How is it that you are sleeping? Get up, call on your god! Perhaps your god will be concerned about us so that we will not perish.”

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And each man said to his mate, “Come, let’s cast lots so that we may [fn]find out on whose account this catastrophe has struck us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:8 - Then they said to him, “Tell us, now! On whose account has this catastrophe struck us? What is your occupation, and where do you come from? What is your country, and from what people are you?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:9 - So he said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear the LORD God of heaven who made the sea and the dry land.”

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Then the men became extremely afraid, and they said to him, “[fn]How could you do this?” For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:11 - So they said to him, “What should we do to you so that the sea will become calm [fn]for us?”—for the sea was becoming increasingly stormy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:12 - And he said to them, “Pick me up and hurl me into the sea. Then the sea will become calm [fn]for you, because I know that on account of me this great storm has come upon you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:13 - However, the men [fn]rowed desperately to return to land, but they could not, because the sea was becoming even stormier against them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:14 - Then they cried out to the LORD and said, “We earnestly pray, O LORD, do not let us perish on account of this man’s life, and do not put innocent blood on us; for You, LORD, have done as You pleased.”

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So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, and the sea stopped its raging.

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[fn]And the LORD designated a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish for three days and three nights.

See the NASB20 Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NASB20 Footnotes
Lit went down in
Lit be broken
Or gods
Lit vessels
Lit from upon them
Lit know
Lit What is this you have done
Lit from upon us
Lit from upon you
Lit dug their oars into the water
Ch 2:1 in Heb
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Jonah Chapter 1 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras