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Acts 17:26

And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

KJV

ἐποίησέν τε ἐξ ἑνὸς πᾶν ἔθνος ἀνθρώπων κατοικεῖν ἐπὶ παντὸς προσώπου τῆς γῆς, ὁρίσας προστεταγμένους καιροὺς καὶ τὰς ὁροθεσίας τῆς κατοικίας αὐτῶν,

Greek NT

fecitque ex uno omne genus hominum inhabitare super universam faciem terræ, definiens statuta tempora, et terminos habitationis eorum,

Vulgate

and he made of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation;

ASV

And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times and the limits of their habitation.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

19 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γῆ
ge
noun · 251×
εἷς
eis
adjective · 336×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καιρός
kairos
noun · 85×
κατοικέω
katoikeo
verb · 45×
κατοικία
katoikia
noun · 1×
ποιέω
poieo
verb · 569×
προστάσσω
prostasso
verb · 8×
πρόσωπον
prosopon
noun · 77×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
τέ
te
particle · 214×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ἐπί
epi
preposition · 888×
ἔθνος
ethnos
noun · 162×
o
article · 19778×
ὁρίζω
orizo
verb · 8×
ὁροθεσία
orothesia
noun · 1×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: ἑνὸς | WH/Treg/NIV: ἑνὸς | RP: + αἵματος
  • ἑνὸςSBLGNT
  • ἑνὸςWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + αἵματοςRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: παντὸς προσώπου | WH/Treg/NIV: παντὸς προσώπου | RP: πᾶν τὸ πρόσωπον
  • παντὸς προσώπουSBLGNT
  • παντὸς προσώπουWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • πᾶν τὸ πρόσωπονRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Historic Christian voices

9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§28In many ways, throughout history down to the present day, men have given expression to their quest for God in their religious beliefs and behaviour: in their prayers, sacrifices, rituals, meditations, and so forth. These forms of religious expression, despite the ambiguities they often bring with them, are so universal that one may well call man a religious being: From one ance…
§57This state of division into many nations, each entrusted by divine providence to the guardianship of angels, is at once cosmic, social and religious. It is intended to limit the pride of fallen humanity10 united only in its perverse ambition to forge its own unity as at Babel.11 But, because of sin, both polytheism and the idolatry of the nation and of its rulers constantly thr…
§287The truth about creation is so important for all of human life that God in his tenderness wanted to reveal to his People everything that is salutary to know on the subject. Beyond the natural knowledge that every man can have of the Creator,124 God progressively revealed to Israel the mystery of creation. He who chose the patriarchs, who brought Israel out of Egypt, and who by …
…and 1 more from this source.
In our time, when day by day mankind is being drawn closer together, and the ties between different peoples are becoming stronger, the Church examines more closely her relationship to non-Christian religions. In her task of promoting unity and love among men, indeed among nations, she considers above all in this declaration what men have in common and what draws them to fellows…
Q. What do you understand by the providence of God? A. Providence is the almighty and ever present power of God by which he upholds, as with his hand, heaven and earth and all creatures, and so rules them that leaf and blade, rain and drought, fruitful and lean years, food and drink, health and sickness, prosperity and poverty — all things, in fact, come to us not by chance but…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 15:22 — For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
  • 1Cor 15:47 — The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
  • Acts 1:7 — And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
  • Acts 3:19 — Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
  • Acts 15:18 — Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
  • Acts 17:24 — God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
  • Amos 3:2 — You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
  • Dan 11:27 — And both these kings’ hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.
  • Dan 11:35 — And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
  • Deut 32:7 — Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
  • Deut 32:8 — When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
  • Gen 1:26 — And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
  • Gen 3:20 — And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
  • Gen 3:20 — And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
  • Gen 5:2 — Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
  • Gen 9:19 — These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
  • Gen 10:25 — And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.
  • Gen 10:31 — These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
  • Gen 10:32 — These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
  • Gen 11:9 — Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
  • Hab 2:3 — For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
  • Hab 3:6 — He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
  • Heb 2:3 — How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
  • Heb 2:11 — For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
  • Isa 14:31 — Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.
  • Isa 34:17 — And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
  • Isa 41:4 — Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
  • Job 12:23 — He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.
  • Job 14:5 — Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
  • Job 14:5 — Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
  • Job 24:1 — Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
  • Luke 3:38 — Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.
  • Mal 2:10 — Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
  • Ps 31:15 — My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
  • Ps 33:15 — He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.
  • Ps 74:17 — Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
  • Ps 107:36 — And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;
  • Rom 5:12 — Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: