Deuteronomy 32:8 in every translation
Leer en españolThe same verse in each translation we publish, grouped by language and by the tradition that made it. Numbering is matched for each text (for example, Psalms in the Septuagint).
Why does my Bible say something different?
- Deuteronomy 32:8: “sons of Israel” or “sons of God”?
The Masoretic Hebrew says God fixed the borders of the peoples “according to the number of the sons of Israel.” A Hebrew manuscript from Qumran reads “sons of God,” and the Septuagint reads “angels of God.” Many scholars, Jewish and Christian, now think “sons of God” is the older reading. The Orthodox Church reads “angels of God.”
English
Catholic
DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version
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.
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
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.
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
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.
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
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.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
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.
MSB Majority Standard Bible
When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
BSB Berean Standard Bible
When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
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.
LSV Literal Standard Version
In the Most High causing nations to inherit, || In His separating sons of Adam—He sets up the borders of the peoples || By the number of the sons of God [[or sons of Israel]].
Read in context · Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/englsv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Darby Darby Translation
When the Most High assigned to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
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.
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
When the most hie God deuided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sonnes of Adam, he appoynted the borders of the people, according to the nomber of the children of Israel.
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance— when he divided all of mankind, and he set the boundaries of the peoples, as he also fixed the number of their gods.
Read in context · Unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engULB/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jewish
JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)
When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when He separated the children of men, He set the borders of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.
Individual translator
Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint
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.
LXXUP Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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.
YLT Young's Literal Translation
In the Most High causing nations to inherit, In His separating sons of Adam — He setteth up the borders of the peoples By the number of the sons of Israel.
FBV Free Bible Version
The Most High gave the nations their lands when he divided the human race; he fixed their borders depending on their gods.
Read in context · Free Bible Version. Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engfbv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scholarly edition
BBE Bible in Basic English
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.
Spanish
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
Cuando el Altísimo hizo heredar á las gentes, cuando hizo dividir los hijos de los hombres, estableció los términos de los pueblos según el número de los hijos de Israel.
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
Cuando Dios dividió el mundo entre las naciones, según el número de los hijos de Israel.
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Cuando ʼElyón daba a cada pueblo su heredad, Y distribuyó a los hijos del hombre, Estableció las fronteras de los pueblos, Según el número de los hijos de Israel.
Read in context · Palabra de Dios para ti © 2020 Asociación Bíblica Latinoamericana. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spapddpt/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
El Altísimo les dio a las naciones sus tierras cuando dividió la raza humana; fijó sus fronteras según sus dioses.
Read in context · Versión Biblia Libre. Copyright © 2018-2020 Jonathan Gallagher y Shelly Barrios de Avila. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spavbl/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Cuando el Altísimo dio a las naciones su herencia y separó a los seres humanos en pueblos, fijó los límites de las naciones teniendo en cuenta el número de los hijos de Israel.
Read in context · La Biblia en Español Sencillo, traducida y editada por Irma Flores (AudioBiblia.org).
Greek
Scholarly edition
LXX Brenton's Greek Septuagint
Ὅτε διεμέριζεν ὁ ὕψιστος ἔθνη, ὡς διέσπειρεν υἱοὺς Αδὰμ, ἔστησεν ὅρια ἐθνῶν κατὰ ἀριθμὸν ἀγγέλων Θεοῦ.
Hebrew
Scholarly edition
WLC Westminster Leningrad Codex
בְּהַנְחֵ֤ל עֶלְיוֹן֙ גּוֹיִ֔ם בְּהַפְרִיד֖וֹ בְּנֵ֣י אָדָ֑ם יַצֵּב֙ גְּבֻלֹ֣ת עַמִּ֔ים לְמִסְפַּ֖ר בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate
Quando dividebat Altissimus gentes, quando separabat filios Adam, constituit terminos populorum juxta numerum filiorum Israël.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
Є҆гда̀ раздѣлѧ́ше вы́шнїй ꙗ҆зы́ки, ꙗ҆́кѡ разсѣ́ѧ сы́ны а҆да́мѡвы, поста́ви предѣ́лы ꙗ҆зы́кѡвъ по числꙋ̀ а҆́гг҃лъ бж҃їихъ,
Read in context · Church Slavonic text: Ponomar Project (github.com/typiconman/ponomar), © 2006–2018 Aleksandr Andreev and others, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Changes for this site (2026-10-18): lectionary pericope markers, marginal glosses and the closing note of Genesis removed, Psalm verses renumbered to the Russian Synodal numbering, joined verses noted; the words are unchanged.
Russian
Orthodox
Synodal Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
Когда Всевышний давал уделы народам и расселял сынов человеческих, тогда поставил пределы народов по числу сынов Израилевых;
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
ότε διεμέριζεν ο Ύψιστος τα έθνη, ότε διέσπειρε τους υιούς του Αδάμ, έστησε τα όρια των λαών κατά τον αριθμόν των υιών Ισραήλ.
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
Кад Вишњи раздаде наследство народима, кад раздели синове Адамове, постави међе народима по броју синова Израиљевих.
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
Kad Višnji razdade nasledstvo narodima, kad razdeli sinove Adamove, postavi međe narodima po broju sinova Izrailjevih.
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
«حِينَ قَسَمَ ٱلْعَلِيُّ لِلْأُمَمِ، حِينَ فَرَّقَ بَنِي آدَمَ، نَصَبَ تُخُومًا لِشُعُوبٍ حَسَبَ عَدَدِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ.
Not in these translations (8)
Tyndale, Scío, PT1904, PT, RP2018, TR, Nestle 1904, SBLGNT