Deuteronomy 4:27 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁷ And the Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ And the Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations to which the Lord will drive you.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ And Jehovah will scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left few in number among the nations, whither Jehovah shall lead you away.

Common English Bible

²⁷ The LORD will scatter you among the nations. Only a very few of you will survive in the countries where the LORD will drag you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ And he will scatter you among all the nations, and few of you will remain among those nations, to which the Lord will lead you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ And scatter you among all nations: and you shall remain a few among the nations, to which the Lord shall lead you.

Deuteronomy 4:27 Cross References

Genesis 11:4

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”

Genesis 34:30

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites; my numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.”

Nehemiah 1:3

And they said to me, “The survivors there in the province who escaped exile are in great trouble and shame; the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are destroyed by fire.”

Psalm 106:27

and would disperse their descendants among the nations, scattering them over the lands.

Psalm 44:11

Thou hast made us like sheep for slaughter, and hast scattered us among the nations.

Psalm 44:12

Thou hast sold thy people for a trifle, demanding no high price for them.

Isaiah 17:6

Gleanings will be left in it, as when an olive tree is beaten— two or three berries in the top of the highest bough, four or five on the branches of a fruit tree, says the Lord God of Israel.

Jeremiah 16:13

therefore I will hurl you out of this land into a land which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’

Ezekiel 11:16

Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: Though I removed them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary to them for a while in the countries where they have gone.’

Ezekiel 12:15

And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries.

Ezekiel 20:23

Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries,

Ezekiel 22:15

I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will consume your filthiness out of you.

Ezekiel 32:26

“Meshech and Tubal are there, and all their multitude, their graves round about them, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they spread terror in the land of the living.

Daniel 9:7

To thee, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those that are near and those that are far away, in all the lands to which thou hast driven them, because of the treachery which they have committed against thee.

Hosea 9:17

My God will cast them off, because they have not hearkened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations.

Leviticus 26:33

And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you; and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

Zechariah 7:14

“and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate.”

Deuteronomy 28:36

“The Lord will bring you, and your king whom you set over you, to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known; and there you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 29:28

and the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as at this day.’

Deuteronomy 30:3

then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes, and have compassion upon you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.

Deuteronomy 32:26

I would have said, “I will scatter them afar, I will make the remembrance of them cease from among men,”