Hebrews 11:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

And truly, if they had called to mind that country from which they had come, they might have had opportunity to return.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And{G2532} if{G1487} indeed{G3303} they had been mindful{G3421} of that{G1565} [country] from{G575} which{G3739} they went out,{G1831} they would have had{G2192} {G302} opportunity{G2540} to return.{G344}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And{G2532} truly{G3303}, if{G1487} they had been mindful{G3421}{(G5707)} of that{G1565} country from{G575} whence{G3739} they came out{G1831}{(G5627)}, they might{G302} have had{G2192}{(G5707)} opportunity{G2540} to have returned{G344}{(G5658)}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    Also yf they had bene myndfull of that countre from whence they came oute they had leasure to have returned agayne.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And doutles yf they had bene myndefull off that countre from whence they came out, they had leysure to haue returned agayne.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And if they had bene mindfull of that countrey, from whence they came out, they had leasure to haue returned.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Also yf they had ben myndfull of that countrey from whence they came out, they had leasure to haue returned:

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And truly, if they had been mindful of that [country] from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opportunity to return,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And if indeed they had been mindful of that `country' from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And if indeed they had been mindful of that [country] from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And truly if they had kept in mind the country from which they went out, they would have had chances of turning back.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    In fact, if they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 24:6-8 : 6 And Abraham said to him, "Beware that you do not take my son back there. 7 The LORD God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my relatives, and who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, 'To your descendants I will give this land,' He will send His angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there. 8 And if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be released from this oath; only do not take my son back there."
  • Gen 12:10 : 10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to stay there; for the famine was severe in the land.
  • Gen 11:31 : 31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and lived there.
  • Gen 31:18 : 18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the livestock that he had acquired in Padan Aram, to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
  • Gen 32:9-9 : 9 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD who said to me, Return to your country and to your relatives, and I will deal well with you: 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two groups. 11 Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and attack me, and the mother with the children.

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