Deuteronomy 32:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁸ When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of men, he fixed the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ 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 Israelites.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ 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.

Common English Bible

⁸ When God Most High divided up the nations— when he divided up humankind— he decided the people’s boundaries based on the number of the gods.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ When the Most High divided the nations, when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the limits of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ When the Most High divided the nations, when he separated the sons of Adam: he appointed the bounds of people according to the number of the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy 32:8 Cross References

Genesis 10:15

Canaan became the father of Sidon his first-born, and Heth,

Genesis 10:25

To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother's name was Joktan.

Genesis 10:5

From these the coastland peoples spread. These are the sons of Japheth in their lands, each with his own language, by their families, in their nations.

1 Chronicles 16:18

saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan, as your portion for an inheritance.”

Job 15:19

to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them).

Psalm 115:16

The heavens are the Lord's heavens, but the earth he has given to the sons of men.

Psalm 50:14

Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High;

Psalm 7:17

I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.

Psalm 74:17

Thou hast fixed all the bounds of the earth; thou hast made summer and winter.

Psalm 82:6

I say, “You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you;

Psalm 91:1

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, who abides in the shadow of the Almighty,

Psalm 92:8

but thou, O Lord, art on high for ever.

Isaiah 14:14

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will make myself like the Most High.’

Daniel 4:17

The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men, and gives it to whom he will, and sets over it the lowliest of men.’

Daniel 5:18

O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father kingship and greatness and glory and majesty;

Micah 2:5

Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the Lord.

Numbers 23:9

For from the top of the mountains I see him, from the hills I behold him; lo, a people dwelling alone, and not reckoning itself among the nations!

Numbers 24:16

the oracle of him who hears the words of God, and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, but having his eyes uncovered:

Acts 17:26

And he made from one every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their habitation,

Acts 7:48

Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made with hands; as the prophet says,

Deuteronomy 33:28

So Israel dwelt in safety, the fountain of Jacob alone, in a land of grain and wine; yea, his heavens drop down dew.