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Berean Standard Bible

“How is it then that each of us hears them in his own native language?”

Acts 2:8

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At Pentecost the apostles are filled with the Holy Spirit and begin to speak in other languages. A crowd of pilgrims in Jerusalem gathers, bewildered.

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Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

How is it then that each of us hears them in his own native language?

World English Bible (WEB)

How do we hear, everyone in our own native language?

King James Version (KJV)

And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?

American Standard Version (ASV)

And how hear we, every man in our own language wherein we were born?

Bible in Basic English (BBE)

And how is it that every one of us is hearing their words in the language which was ours from our birth?

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

and how do we hear, each in our proper dialect, in which we were born?

Reina-Valera 1909 (RVR 1909)

¿Cómo, pues, les oímos nosotros hablar cada uno en nuestra lengua en que somos nacidos?

Sagradas Escrituras 1569 (SE 1569)

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Nueva Biblia Viva (NBV)

―¿Cómo es posible? —exclamaban—. ¡Estos hombres son galileos y, sin embargo, los escuchamos hablar en el idioma que se habla en los países en que hemos nacido!

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