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Mark 6:24 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²⁴ So, she went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask for?” And her mother said, “[Ask for] the head of John the Immerser.”

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²⁴ And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.

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²⁴ Then she left the room and said to her mother, What shall I ask for [myself]? And she replied, The head of John the Baptist!

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²⁴ And she went out, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptizer.

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²⁴ She left the banquet hall and said to her mother, “What should I ask for?” “John the Baptist’s head,” Herodias replied.

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²⁴ And when she had gone out, she said to her mother, "What shall I request?" But her mother said, "The head of John the Baptist."

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²⁴ Who when she was gone out, said to her mother, What shall I ask? But she said: The head of John the Baptist.

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Her mother persuaded her to say, “Give me the head of John, the Immerser, here on this [large] platter.”

(Thirty years later) In those days, John the Immerser went into the desert of Judea preaching [to Jews], saying,

And he vowed to her, “I will give you whatever you ask me for, up to one half [the wealth] of my kingdom.”

At once she hurried in to the king and said, “I would like you to give me the head of John the Immerser on a [large] platter right away.”