Happy are you who sow beside all waters, who let the feet of the ox and the donkey range free.

你们在各水边撒种、牧放牛驴的有福了！

然而你们在水边撒种，牧放牛驴的有福了！

然而你们在水边撒种，牧放牛驴的有福了！

你们这些在河边撒种、自由地牧放牛驴的人有福了！

你们这些在各水边撒种，又使牛驴随意走动的，是多么有福啊！

你们这些在各水边撒种、让牛驴自由走动的，是蒙福的人！

你們在各水邊撒種、牧放牛驢的有福了！

然而你們在水邊撒種，牧放牛驢的有福了！

然而你們在水邊撒種，牧放牛驢的有福了！

你們這些在河邊撒種、自由地牧放牛驢的人有福了！

你們這些在各水邊撒種，又使牛驢隨意走動的，是多麼有福啊！

有福啊，你們在各水邊撒種的，使牛驢腳踏遍地的！

你們這些在各水邊撒種、讓牛驢自由走動的，是蒙福的人！

爾曹播種諸水之濱、驅牛驢於彼者、福矣、

我之選民、驅牛叱驢、耕耘水畔、咸蒙福祉。

凡爾播種於諸水畔、隨在得牧牛驢者、即為有福、

how blessed you will be, sowing your seed by every stream, and letting your cattle and donkeys range free.

But how blessed you people will be! You will plant your seeds by every stream. You will let your cattle and donkeys wander anywhere they want to.

the Lord will greatly bless his people. Wherever they plant seed, bountiful crops will spring up. Their cattle and donkeys will graze freely.

You will be happy as you sow seed beside abundant water, and as you let oxen and donkeys range freely.

How blessed will you be, you who sow beside all waters, Who let the ox and the donkey out freely.

Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, Who send out freely the feet of the ox and the donkey.

Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth the feet of the ox and the ass.

Those who sow seed are happy beside abundant waters; they let ox and donkey range freely.

Blessed[ are] ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth[ thither] the feet of the ox and the ass.

you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, you who let your ox and donkey graze.

Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.

Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.

And he will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. In that day your livestock will graze in large pastures,and the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.

But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.

And the waters of the sea will be dried up, and the river will be dry and parched,and its canals will become foul, and the branches of Egypt’s Nile will diminish and dry up, reeds and rushes will rot away.There will be bare places by the Nile, on the brink of the Nile, and all that is sown by the Nile will be parched, will be driven away, and will be no more.

For it is written in the Law of Moses,“ You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God is concerned?Does he not certainly speak for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?

And more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,

So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.

“ For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.