Deuteronomy 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.
KJV
Quando dividebat Altissimus gentes, quando separabat filios Adam, constituit terminos populorum juxta numerum filiorum Israël.
Vulgate
ὅτε διεμέριζεν ὁ ὕψιστος ἔθνη, ὡς διέσπειρεν υἱοὺς Ἀδάμ, ἔστησεν ὅρια ἐθνῶν κατὰ ἀριθμὸν ἀγγέλων θεοῦ.
LXX
When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the children of men, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.
ASV
בְּ/הַנְחֵ֤ל עֶלְיוֹן֙ גּוֹיִ֔ם בְּ/הַפְרִיד֖/וֹ בְּנֵ֣י אָדָ֑ם יַצֵּב֙ גְּבֻלֹ֣ת עַמִּ֔ים לְ/מִסְפַּ֖ר בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אָדָ֖ם
'dm
noun · 545×
בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
גּוֹיִ֔ם
gvym
noun · 557×
הָ
h
noun · 10×
י
y
noun · 1849×
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל
yshr'l
proper_noun · 2486×
יִתְפָּרָֽדוּ
ytprdv
verb · 26×
ם
m
verb · 57×
מִסְפַּ֣ר
mspr
noun · 134×
נִצָּ֥ב
ntsb
verb · 74×
עֶלְי֔וֹן
'lyvn
adjective · 51×
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
2. But when we say these things, they make other objections again, asking, And why did God make him such? God did not make him such, far from it, since then neither would He have punished him. For if we in those matters in which we are the cause, do not find fault with our servant, much more will not the God of all. But whence did this come to pass? one may say. Of himself and …
1. Introduction to the Feeding of the Five Thousand. And when even had come His disciples came to Him, Matthew 14:15 that is, at the consummation of the age in regard to which we may fitly say what is found in the Epistle of John, It is the last hour. 1 John 2:18 They, not yet understanding what the Word was about to do, say to Him, The place is desert, Matthew 14:15 seeing the…
13. It is plain then from the above that the Scriptures declare the Son's eternity; it is equally plain from what follows that the Arian phrases 'He was not,' and 'before' and 'when,' are in the same Scriptures predicated of creatures. Moses, for instance, in his account of the generation of our system, says, 'And every plant of the field, before it was in the earth, and every …
Cross-references
- 1Chr 16:18 — Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;
- Acts 7:48 — Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
- 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;
- Dan 4:17 — This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whom
- Exod 19:5 — Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
- Ezek 20:6 — In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:
- Gen 10:15 — And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth,
- 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 10:25 — 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 11:8 — So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
- Gen 11:8 — So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
- Gen 15:18 — In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
- Gen 17:8 — And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
- Gen 48:4 — And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
- 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.
- Jer 27:5 — I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.
- Mal 1:2 — I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
- Mic 2:5 — Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.
- Num 23:9 — For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
- Num 33:53 — And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
- Ps 21:7 — For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
- Ps 74:17 — Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
- Ps 91:1 — He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
- Ps 92:8 — But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore.
- Ps 115:16 — The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’s: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
- Ps 115:16 — The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’s: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.