Luke 2:12
Good News Translation
And this is what will prove it to you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger."

New Revised Standard Version
This will be a sign for you: you will find a child wrapped in bands of cloth and lying in a manger.”

Contemporary English Version
You will know who he is, because you will find him dressed in baby clothes and lying on a bed of hay."

New American Bible
And this will be a sign for you: you will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And this shall be a sign unto you. You shall find the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And this shall be a sign unto you. You shall find the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger.

Exodus 3:12 And he said to him: I will be with thee; and this thou shalt have for a sign that I have sent thee: When thou shalt have brought my people out of Egypt, thou shalt offer sacrifice to God upon this mountain.

1 Samuel 10:2-7 When thou shalt depart from me this day, thou shalt find two men by the sepulchre of Rachel in the borders of Benjamin to the south, and they shall say to thee: The asses are found which thou wentest to seek: and thy father, thinking no more of the asses, is concerned for you, and saith: What shall I do for my son? . . .

Psalm 22:6 But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.

Isaiah 53:1,2 Who a hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? . . .

Context
The Shepherds and the Angels
11For, this day is born to you a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord, in the city of David. 12And this shall be a sign unto you. You shall find the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger. 13And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army, praising God and saying:…
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:34
And this shall be a sign to thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, Ophni and Phinees: in one day they shall both of them die.

2 Kings 19:29
And to thee, O Ezechias, this shall be a sign: Eat this year what thou shalt find: and in the second year, such things as spring of themselves: but in the third year sow and reap: plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

2 Kings 20:8
And Ezechias had said to Isaias: What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I will go up to the temple of the Lord the third day?

Isaiah 7:11
Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God, either unto the depth of hell, or unto the height above.

Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son and his name shall be called Emmanuel.

Luke 2:7
And she brought forth her first born son and wrapped him up in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger: because there was no room for them in the inn.

Luke 2:13
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army, praising God and saying:

Luke 2:11
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