Luke 15:25 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁵ “Now his elder son was in the field; and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ But his older son was in the field; and as he returned and came near the house, he heard music and dancing.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing.

Common English Bible

²⁵ “Now his older son was in the field. Coming in from the field, he approached the house and heard music and dancing.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ But his elder son was in the field. And when he returned and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ Now his elder son was in the field, and when he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing:

Luke 15:25 Cross References

2 Samuel 6:14

And David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.

Psalm 126:1

When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.

Psalm 149:3

Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with timbrel and lyre!

Psalm 150:4

Praise him with timbrel and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!

Psalm 30:11

Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; thou hast loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,

Exodus 15:20

Then Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and dancing.

Ecclesiastes 3:4

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Jeremiah 31:4

Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin Israel! Again you shall adorn yourself with timbrels, and shall go forth in the dance of the merrymakers.

Luke 15:24

for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to make merry.

Luke 15:26

And he called one of the servants and asked what this meant.

Luke 7:32

They are like children sitting in the market place and calling to one another, ‘We piped to you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not weep.’