Mark 6:23
Good News Translation
With many vows he said to her, "I swear that I will give you anything you ask for, even as much as half my kingdom!"

New Revised Standard Version
And he solemnly swore to her, “Whatever you ask me, I will give you, even half of my kingdom.”

Contemporary English Version
I swear that I will give you as much as half of my kingdom, if you want it."

New American Bible
He even swore [many things] to her, “I will grant you whatever you ask of me, even to half of my kingdom.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he swore to her: Whatsoever thou shalt ask I will give thee, though it be the half of my kingdom.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he swore to her: Whatsoever thou shalt ask I will give thee, though it be the half of my kingdom.

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1 Samuel 28:10 And Saul swore unto her by the Lord, saying: As the Lord liveth, there shall no evil happen to thee for this thing.

2 Kings 6:31 And the king said: May God do so and so to me, and may he add more, if the head of Eliseus, the son of Saphat, shall stand on him this day.

Matthew 5:34-37 But I say to you not to swear at all, neither by heaven for it is the throne of God: . . .

Matthew 14:7 Whereupon he promised with an oath, to give her whatsoever she would ask of him.

Whatsoever.

Esther 5:3,6 And the king said to her: What wilt thou, queen Esther? what is thy request? if thou shouldst even ask one half of the kingdom, it shall be given to thee. . . .

Esther 7:2 And the king said to her again the second day, after he was warm with wine: What is thy petition, Esther, that it may be granted thee? and what wilt thou have done: although thou ask the half of my kingdom, thou shalt have it.

Proverbs 6:2 Do, therefore, my son, what I say, and deliver thyself: because thou art fallen into the hand of thy neighbour. Run about, make haste, stir up thy friend:

Matthew 4:9 And said to him: All these will I give thee, if falling down thou wilt adore me.

Context
The Beheading of John
22And when the daughter of the same Herodias had come in, and had danced, and pleased Herod, and them that were at table with him, the king said to the damsel: Ask of me what thou wilt, and I will give it thee. 23And he swore to her: Whatsoever thou shalt ask I will give thee, though it be the half of my kingdom. 24Who when she was gone out, said to her mother, What shall I ask? But her mother said: The head of John the Baptist.…
Cross References
Esther 5:3
And the king said to her: What wilt thou, queen Esther? what is thy request? if thou shouldst even ask one half of the kingdom, it shall be given to thee.

Esther 5:6
And the king said to her, after he had drunk wine plentifully: What dost thou desire should be given thee? and for what thing askest thou? although thou shouldst ask the half of my kingdom, thou shalt have it.

Esther 7:2
And the king said to her again the second day, after he was warm with wine: What is thy petition, Esther, that it may be granted thee? and what wilt thou have done: although thou ask the half of my kingdom, thou shalt have it.

Mark 6:24
Who when she was gone out, said to her mother, What shall I ask? But her mother said: The head of John the Baptist.

Mark 6:22
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