Other translations
American Standard Version
Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.
Darby Bible Translation
Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)
Cast thy bread upon the running waters: for after a long time thou shalt find it again.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible
Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.
God's Word
Throw your bread on the surface of the water, because you will find it again after many days.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Send your bread on the surface of the waters, for after many days you may find it.
International Standard Version
Spread your bread on the water— after a while you will find it.
NET Bible
Send your grain overseas, for after many days you will get a return.
New American Standard Bible
Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you will find it after many days.
New International Version
Ship your grain across the sea; after many days you may receive a return.
New Living Translation
Send your grain across the seas, and in time, profits will flow back to you.
Webster's Bible Translation
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
The World English Bible
Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.
EasyEnglish Bible
Freely give your things to other people. If you do that, one day you will receive your things back again.
Young‘s Literal Translation
Send forth thy bread on the face of the waters, For in the multitude of the days thou dost find it.
New Life Version
Throw your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.
The Voice Bible
Teacher: Don’t be afraid to release your bread upon the waters, for in due time you will find it.
Living Bible
Give generously, for your gifts will return to you later.
New Catholic Bible
Cast your bread upon the waters, and eventually you will get it back.
Legacy Standard Bible
Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you will find it after many days.
Jubilee Bible 2000
Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shalt find it after many days.
Christian Standard Bible
Send your bread on the surface of the water, for after many days you may find it.
Amplified Bible © 1954
Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.
New Century Version
Invest what you have, because after a while you will get a return.
The Message
Be generous: Invest in acts of charity. Charity yields high returns.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™
Cast your bread on the surface of the water. Then, after many days you will find it again.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Send out your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will get it back.
Good News Translation®
Invest your money in foreign trade, and one of these days you will make a profit.
Wycliffe Bible
Send thy bread [up]on waters passing forth, for after many times thou shalt find it. (Send thy bread upon the water, and after a time, thou shalt receive it back, and more along with it.)
Contemporary English Version
Be generous, and someday you will be rewarded.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Send out your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will get it back.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Send out your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will get it back.
Common English Bible © 2011
Send your bread out on the water because, in the course of time, you may find it again.
Amplified Bible © 2015
Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, [be diligently active, make thoughtful decisions], for you will find it after many days.
English Standard Version Anglicised
Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Send forth your bread upon the face of the waters; after a long time you may find it again.
New American Standard Bible
Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you will find it after many days.
The Expanded Bible
·Invest what you have [L Send/Cast/Throw your bread upon the waters], because after ·a while you will get a return [L many days you may find it].
Tree of Life Version
Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it.
Revised Standard Version
Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.
New International Reader's Version
Sell your grain in the market overseas. After a while you might earn something from it.
BRG Bible
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
Complete Jewish Bible
Send your resources out over the seas; eventually you will reap a return.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Send out your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will get it back.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
Cast thy lechem upon the waters, for thou shalt find it after many yamim.
Names of God Bible
Throw your bread on the surface of the water, because you will find it again after many days.
Modern English Version
Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.
Easy-to-Read Version
Do good wherever you go. After a while, the good you do will come back to you.
International Children’s Bible
Do good things everywhere you go. After a while the good you do will return to help you.
Lexham English Bible
Send out your bread on the water, for in many days you will find it.
New International Version - UK
Ship your grain across the sea; after many days you may receive a return.