 | Richard Graves - Bible - 1850 - 552 pages
...days " of old, consider the years of many generations : ask thy father, " and he will show thee; tliy elders, and they will tell thee, " When the Most High...separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the " Nor, 2dly, in the world at large promiscuously ; for this could not be well " discerned, or form... | |
 | Samuel Farmar Jarvis - Bible - 1850 - 658 pages
...corroborate the opinion that the number of families or clans, which then separated, was seventy. " When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,...the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people (Heb. the peoples) according to the number of the children of Israel." " All the souls of the house... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1850 - 604 pages
...Probability favours this idea, as well as incidental allusions of holy writ, like the following : " When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,...he separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of ihe people, According eo the number of the children of Israel. For the Lord's portion is his people... | |
 | 1850 - 588 pages
...than eighteen hundred years. 'Remember the days of old : consider the years of many generations. Ask thy father, and he will shew thee : thy elders, and they will tell thee.' Of eighteen hundred years let us go back three hundred and fifty, from 1850 to 1500. "Where is the... | |
 | John Kitto - Bible - 1851 - 538 pages
...with Scripture ; traces of this may be found in the last song of Moses. In chap, xxxii. 8 we read, ' When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,...the bounds of the people according to the number of tfie children of Israel ' (^Kltt^ ^3. "ISDCb) ; this reading we have also in the Syriac, Arabic, and... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - History - 1982 - 344 pages
...Federalist motto of the period: "Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee." Though the Protestant child of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America was urged to follow the... | |
 | W. C. van Unnik - Bible - 1973 - 442 pages
...explain the difference in customs he points to Deut. 32:8 (LXX): "When the Most High divided the nations, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels of God. And his people Jacob became the portion of the... | |
 | Lafayette Wallace Case - 1889 - 460 pages
...FERGUS PRINTING COMPANY. 1889 " Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations; ask thy father and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. " — DEUT., xxxii, 7. " There be of them that have left a name behind them, that thei1 praises might... | |
 | Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt - Religion - 1986 - 568 pages
...then, are the gods which the Lord has given to all the nations on earth. In Deuteronomy 32:8 we find: "When the Most High divided 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." 20 The number... | |
 | William Safire, Leonard Safir - Education - 1990 - 436 pages
...— Saint Jerome Remembrance Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. — Old Testament Deuteronomy 32:7 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which... | |
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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. 
