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Berean Standard Bible

“On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!””

Jonah 3:4

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After the great fish, God calls Jonah again to go to Nineveh, the capital of Assyria, a city notorious for cruelty. This time Jonah obeys.

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Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!”

World English Bible (WEB)

Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, “In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”

King James Version (KJV)

And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

American Standard Version (ASV)

And Jonah began to enter into the city a day`s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

Bible in Basic English (BBE)

And Jonah first of all went a day's journey into the town, and crying out said, In forty days destruction will overtake Nineveh.

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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Reina-Valera 1909 (RVR 1909)

Y comenzó Jonás á entrar por la ciudad, camino de un día, y pregonaba diciendo: De aquí á cuarenta días Nínive será destruída.

Sagradas Escrituras 1569 (SE 1569)

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Nueva Biblia Viva (NBV)

Cuando entró Jonás el primer día a la ciudad y comenzó a predicar, el pueblo se arrepintió de sus malas obras. Jonás pregonaba con voz potente el mensaje de Dios: «¡Dentro de cuarenta días Nínive será destruida!». Los ninivitas creyeron el mensaje que Dios les enviaba y decidieron ayunar. Desde el más encumbrado hasta el más pobre se vistieron con ropas de luto, es decir, con ropa áspera y tosca, en señal de arrepentimiento.

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