Deuteronomy 33:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ And of Gad he said, “Blessed be the enlargement of Gad! Like a lion he lives; he tears at arm and scalp.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: He dwelleth as a lion, And teareth the arm with the crown of the head.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ And of Gad he said: Blessed is He Who enlarges Gad! Gad lurks like a lioness, and tears the arm, yes, the crown of the head.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: He dwelleth as a lioness, And teareth the arm, yea, the crown of the head.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Then he told Gad: “May Gad’s broad lands be blessed! He lives like a lion: he rips an arm, even a head!

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ And to Gad he said: "Blessed is Gad in his breadth. He has rested like a lion, and he has seized the arm and the top of the head.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ And to Gad he said: Blessed be Gad in his breadth: he hath rested as a lion, and hath seized upon the arm and the top of the head.

Deuteronomy 33:20 Cross References

Genesis 49:19

Gad shall be raided by raiders, but he shall raid at their heels.

Genesis 49:9

Judah is a lion’s whelp; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches down, he stretches out like a lion, like a lioness—who dares rouse him up?

1 Chronicles 4:10

Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory and that your hand might be with me and that you would keep me from hurt and harm!” And God granted what he asked.

Psalm 18:19

He brought me out into a broad place; he delivered me because he delighted in me.

Psalm 18:36

You gave me a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip.

Jeremiah 2:16

Moreover, the people of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.

Micah 5:8

And among the nations the remnant of Jacob, surrounded by many peoples, shall be like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which, when it goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, with no one to deliver.

Joshua 13:10

and all the cities of King Sihon of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the boundary of the Ammonites;

Joshua 13:8

With the other half-tribe of Manasseh the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the Lord gave them: