Revelation 5:1 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹ And I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a scroll written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ AND I saw lying on the open hand of Him Who was seated on the throne a scroll (book) written within and on the back, closed and sealed with seven seals; [Isa. 29:11; Ezek. 2:9, 10; Dan. 12:4.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the back, close sealed with seven seals.

Common English Bible

¹ Then I saw a scroll in the right hand of the one seated on the throne. It had writing on the front and the back, and it was sealed with seven seals.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ And in the right hand of the One sitting upon the throne, I saw a book, written inside and out, sealed with seven seals.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne, a book written within and without, sealed with seven seals.

Revelation 5:1 Cross References

Isaiah 29:11

And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed. When men give it to one who can read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot, for it is sealed.”

Isaiah 34:16

Seek and read from the book of the Lord: Not one of these shall be missing; none shall be without her mate. For the mouth of the Lord has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.

Isaiah 8:16

Bind up the testimony, seal the teaching among my disciples.

Daniel 8:26

The vision of the evenings and the mornings which has been told is true; but seal up the vision, for it pertains to many days hence.”

Zechariah 5:1

Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll!

Revelation 10:2

He had a little scroll open in his hand. And he set his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the land,

Revelation 4:3

And he who sat there appeared like jasper and carnelian, and round the throne was a rainbow that looked like an emerald.

Revelation 4:9

And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, who lives for ever and ever,

Revelation 5:13

And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all therein, saying, “To him who sits upon the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might for ever and ever!”

Revelation 5:7

and he went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne.

Revelation 6:1

Now I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say, as with a voice of thunder, “Come!”

Revelation 6:16

calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb;

Revelation 8:1

When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.