Revelation 8:1
Good News Translation
When the Lamb broke open the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

New Revised Standard Version
When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

Contemporary English Version
When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

New American Bible
When he broke open the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven, as it were for half an hour.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven, as it were for half an hour.

And.

Revelation 5:1,9 And I saw, in the right hand of him that sat on the throne, a book, written within and without, sealed with seven seals. . . .

Revelation 6:1,3,5,7,9,12 And I saw that the Lamb had opened one of the seven seals: and I heard one of the four living creatures, as it were the voice of thunder, saying: Come and see. . . .

silence.

Job 4:16 There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my eyes, and I heard the voice, as it were, of a gentle wind.

Psalm 37:7 Be subject to the Lord and pray to him. Envy not the man who prospereth in his way; the man who doth unjust things.

Psalm 62:1 Unto the end, for Idithun, a psalm of David. [2] Shall not my soul be subject to God? for from him is my salvation.

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Habakkuk 2:20 But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

Zechariah 2:13 Let all flesh be silent at the presence of the Lord: for he is risen up out of his holy habitation.

Context
The Seventh Seal
1And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven, as it were for half an hour. 2And I saw seven angels standing in the presence of God: and there were given to them seven trumpets.…
Cross References
Matthew 27:66
And they departing, made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone and setting guards.

Revelation 5:1
And I saw, in the right hand of him that sat on the throne, a book, written within and without, sealed with seven seals.

Revelation 6:1
And I saw that the Lamb had opened one of the seven seals: and I heard one of the four living creatures, as it were the voice of thunder, saying: Come and see.

Revelation 6:3
And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying: Come and see.

Revelation 7:17
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