Matthew 24:18 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁸ The person who is in a field [i.e., doing farm work] is not [even] to return [to his house] to get his coat.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ And let him who is in the field not turn back to get his overcoat.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ and let him that is in the field not return back to take his cloak.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Those in the field shouldn’t come back to grab their clothes.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ And whoever is in the field, let him not turn back to take his tunic.

Matthew 24:18 Cross References

Matthew 24:17

[Also], the person who is on a housetop [Note: This was a flat area where people retired for rest, prayer, etc., with its stairway on the outside], is not to take any of the belongings from his house as he comes down [to flee].

Matthew 24:19

It will be too bad for those who are pregnant and who are nursing babies in those days.

Luke 17:31

On that day, the person who is on a housetop [Note: This was a flat area where people retired for rest, prayer, etc., with its stairway on the outside], whose belongings are [still] in his house, is not to go down and [attempt to] take any of them away. And the person who is in a field [i.e., doing farm work], also is not to return [to his house].