Matthew 14:8
Good News Translation
At her mother's suggestion she asked him, "Give me here and now the head of John the Baptist on a plate!"

New Revised Standard Version
Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter.”

Contemporary English Version
But the girl's mother told her to say, "Here on a serving plate I want the head of John the Baptist!"

New American Bible
Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
But she being instructed before by her mother, said: Give me here in a dish the head of John the Baptist.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But she being instructed before by her mother, said: Give me here in a dish the head of John the Baptist.

being.

2 Chronicles 22:2,3 Ochozias was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Athalia the daughter of Amri. . . .

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.

Give.

1 Kings 18:4,13 For when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord, he took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with bread and water. . . .

1 Kings 19:2 And Jezabel sent a messenger to Elias, saying: Such and such things may the gods do to me, and add still more, if by this hour to morrow I make not thy life as the life of one of them.

2 Kings 11:1 Now Athalia, the mother of Ochozias, seeing that her son was dead, arose and slew all the royal seed.

Proverbs 1:16 But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.

Proverbs 29:10 Bloodthirsty men hate the upright: but just men seek his soul.

a charger.

Numbers 7:13,19,84,85 And his offering was a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice: . . .

Ezra 1:9 And this is the number of them: thirty bowls of gold, a thousand bowls of silver, nine and twenty knives, thirty cups of gold,

Context
The Beheading of John
7Whereupon he promised with an oath, to give her whatsoever she would ask of him. 8But she being instructed before by her mother, said: Give me here in a dish the head of John the Baptist. 9And the king was struck sad: yet because of his oath, and for them that sat with him at table, he commanded it to be given.…
Cross References
Numbers 7:13
And his offering was a silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:

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

Matthew 14:9
And the king was struck sad: yet because of his oath, and for them that sat with him at table, he commanded it to be given.

Matthew 14:11
And his head was brought in a dish: and it was given to the damsel, and she brought it to her mother.

Mark 6:25
And when she was come in immediately with haste to the king, she asked, saying: I will that forthwith thou give me in a dish, the head of John the Baptist.

Mark 6:28
And he beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head in a dish: and gave to the damsel, and the damsel gave it her mother.

Matthew 14:7
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