Deuteronomy 32:8 - The Scriptures 1998

⁸ “When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance When He separated the sons of Aḏ

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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.

Deuteronomy 32:8 Cross References

Genesis 10:15

And Kenaʽ

Genesis 10:25

And to Ě

Genesis 10:5

From these the coastland peoples of the nations were separated into their lands, everyone according to his language, according to their clans, into their nations.

1 Chronicles 16:18

Saying, “To you I give the land of Kenaʽ

Job 15:19

to them alone the land was given, and no stranger passed over into their midst:

Psalm 115:16

The heavens are the heavens of יהוה ; But He has given the earth to the children of men.

Psalm 50:14

“Offer thanksgiving to Elohim, And pay your vows to the Most High.

Psalm 7:17

I give thanks to יהוה  according to His righteousness, And praise the Name of יהוה  Most High.

Psalm 74:17

You have set all the borders of the earth, You have made summer and winter.

Psalm 82:6

I, I said, “You are elohim, And all of you are sons of the Most High.

Psalm 91:1

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High, Who abides under the shadow of the Almighty,

Psalm 92:8

But You, יהוה, are on high forever.

Isaiah 14:14

let me go up above the heights of the clouds, let me be like the Most High.’

Daniel 4:17

‘This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the command by the word of the set-apart ones, so that the living know that the Most High is ruler in the reign of men, and gives it to whomever He wishes, and sets over it the lowest of men.’

Daniel 5:18

“O sovereign, the Most High Elah gave Neḇ

Micah 2:5

“Therefore you shall have no one in the assembly of יהוה  to divide the land by lot.

Numbers 23:9

“For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I observe him. Look, a people dwelling alone, not reckoning itself among the nations.

Numbers 24:16

the saying of him who hears the words of Ě

Acts 17:26

“And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having ordained beforehand the times and the boundaries of their dwelling,

Acts 7:48

“However, the Most High does not dwell in dwellings made with hands, as the prophet says:

Deuteronomy 33:28

“Thus Yisra’ĕ