8 All these are the beginning of birth pains.

8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

8 But all this is only the first of the birth pains, with more to come.

8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

8 These things are like the first pains when something new is about to be born.

8 But all these things are the beginning of travail.

8 But all these are the beginning of throes.

8 All of these are only the beginning pains ⸤of the end⸥. 

8 All these events are the beginning of birth pains.

8 all this is but the beginning of the birth pangs.

8 But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.

8 All these are the beginning of birth pains.

8 “But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.