Deuteronomy 32:8

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When the Most High gave the nations their heritage, separating into groups the children of men, he had the limits of the peoples marked out, keeping in mind the number of the children of Israel.

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  • Acts 17:26 : 26 And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,
  • Gen 10:15 : 15 And Canaan was the father of Zidon, who was his oldest son, and Heth,
  • Gen 10:25 : 25 And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his time the peoples of the earth became separate; and his brother's name was Joktan.
  • Gen 11:8-9 : 8 So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town. 9 So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.
  • Gen 15:18-21 : 18 In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: 19 The Kenite, the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite, 20 And the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim, 21 And the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.
  • Num 24:16 : 16 He says, whose ear is open to the words of God, who has knowledge of the Most High, who has seen the vision of the Ruler of all, falling down and having his eyes open:
  • Ps 7:17 : 17 I will give praise to the Lord for his righteousness; I will make a song to the name of the Lord Most High.
  • Ps 50:14 : 14 Make an offering of praise to God; keep the agreements which you have made with the Most High;
  • Ps 82:6 : 6 I said, You are gods; all of you are the sons of the Most High:
  • Ps 91:1 : 1 Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;
  • Ps 92:8 : 8 But you, O Lord, are on high for ever.
  • Ps 115:16 : 16 The heavens are the Lord's; but the earth he has given to the children of men.
  • Isa 14:14 : 14 I will go higher than the clouds; I will be like the Most High.
  • Dan 4:17 : 17 This order is fixed by the watchers, and the decision is by the word of the holy ones: so that the living may be certain that the Most High is ruler over the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure, lifting up over it the lowest of men.
  • Dan 5:18 : 18 As for you, O King, the Most High God gave to Nebuchadnezzar, your father, the kingdom and great power and glory and honour:
  • Acts 7:48 : 48 But still, the Most High has not his resting-place in houses made with hands, as the prophet says,

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  • 9 For the Lord's wealth is his people; Jacob is the land of his heritage.

  • 55 Driving out nations before them, marking out the line of their heritage, and giving the people of Israel their tents for a resting-place.

  • 17 And he has given them their heritage, and by his hand it has been measured out to them: it will be theirs for ever, their resting-place from generation to generation.

  • 53 For you made them separate from all the peoples of the earth, to be your heritage, as you said by Moses your servant, when you took our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.

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    21 You will make a division of the land among you, tribe by tribe.

    22 And you are to make a distribution of it, by the decision of the Lord, for a heritage to you and to the men from other lands who are living among you and who have children in your land: they will be the same to you as if they were Israelites by birth, they will have their heritage with you among the tribes of Israel.

    23 In whatever tribe the man from a strange land is living, there you are to give him his heritage, says the Lord.

  • 12 And gave their land for a heritage, even for a heritage to Israel his people.

  • 19 And having put to destruction seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them the land for their heritage for about four hundred and fifty years.

  • 29 This is the land of which distribution is to be made by the decision of the Lord, among the tribes of Israel for their heritage, and these are their heritages, says the Lord.

  • 22 And you gave them kingdoms and peoples, making distribution to them in every part of the land: so they took for their heritage the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og, king of Bashan.

  • 29 These are they to whom the Lord gave orders to make the distribution of the heritage among the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

  • 12 Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he has taken for his heritage.

  • 2 Give orders to the children of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land which is to be your heritage, the land of Canaan inside these limits,)

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    18 Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, the measured line of your heritage:

    19 When you were still small in number, and strange in the land;

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    53 Let there be a division of the land among these, for their heritage, in relation to the number of names.

    54 To those families who are more in number, give a greater heritage; to those who are less in number, a smaller part: to every one let the heritage be given in relation to the number in his family.

    55 But let the distribution of the land be made by the decision of the Lord: by the names of the tribes of their fathers let their heritage be given them.

  • 4 Now I have given to you, as the heritage of your tribes, all these nations which are still in the land, together with those cut off by me, from Jordan as far as the Great Sea on the west.

  • 11 Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, the measured line of your heritage:

  • 5 From these came the nations of the sea-lands, with their different families and languages.

  • 44 And gave them the lands of the nations; and they took the work of the peoples for a heritage;

  • 54 And you will take up your heritage in the land by the decision of the Lord, to every family its part; the greater the family the greater its heritage, and the smaller the family the smaller will be its heritage; wherever the decision of the Lord gives to any man his part, that will be his; distribution will be made to you by your fathers' tribes.

  • 5 And let them make division of it into seven parts: let Judah keep inside his limit on the south, and let the children of Joseph keep inside their limit on the north.

  • 16 The heritage of Jacob is not like these; for the maker of all things is his heritage: the Lord of armies is his name.

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    8 Make your request to me, and I will give you the nations for your heritage, and the farthest limits of the earth will be under your hand.

  • 19 The heritage of Jacob is not like these; for the maker of all things is his heritage: the Lord of armies is his name.

  • 8 And we took their land and gave it to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, for their heritage.

  • 13 Have in mind Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you gave your oath, saying, I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and all this land will I give to your seed, as I said, to be their heritage for ever.

  • 38 Driving out before you nations greater and stronger than you, to take you into their land and give it to you for your heritage, as at this day.

  • 13 And Moses gave orders to the children of Israel saying, This is the land which is to be your heritage, by the decision of the Lord, which by the Lord's order is to be given to the nine tribes and the half-tribe:

  • 32 These are the heritages of which Moses made distribution in the lowlands of Moab, on the other side of Jordan in Jericho, to the east.

  • 7 So now make division of this land for a heritage to the nine tribes, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

  • 7 Keep in mind the days of the past, give thought to the years of generations gone by: go to your father and he will make it clear to you, to the old men and they will give you the story.

  • 13 This is what the Lord has said: These are the limits by which you will take up your heritage in the land among the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph is to have two parts.

  • 24 Son of man, those who are living in these waste places in the land of Israel say, Abraham was but one, and he had land for his heritage: but we are a great number; the land is given to us for our heritage.

  • 42 And from the half given to the children of Israel, which Moses had kept separate from that given to the fighting-men,

  • 9 From the top of the rocks I see him, looking down on him from the hills: it is a people made separate, not to be numbered among the nations.

  • 18 And you are to take one chief from every tribe to make the distribution of the land.

  • 8 So did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

  • 4 For the Lord has taken Jacob for himself, and Israel for his property.

  • 52 The children of Israel are to put up their tents, every man in his tent-circle round his flag.

  • 20 But the Lord has taken you out of the flaming fire, out of Egypt, to be to him the people of his heritage, as you are today.

  • 7 And so no property will be handed from tribe to tribe among the children of Israel; but every one of the children of Israel will keep the heritage of his father's tribe.

  • 26 And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,

  • 8 See, all the land is before you: go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their seed after them.

  • 1 When Israel came out of Egypt, the children of Jacob from a people whose language was strange to them;