Deuteronomy 32:7
What does Deuteronomy 32:7 mean?
A plain-English look at Deuteronomy 32:7 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations: Ask thy father, and he will show thee; Thine elders, and they will tell thee.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Remember 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations: Ask thy father, and he will show thee; Thine elders, and they will tell thee.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Keep 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.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Remember days of old--Understand the years of many generations--Ask thy father, and he doth tell thee; Thine elders, and they say to thee:
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Remember the days of old, think upon every generation: ask thy father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and they will tell thee.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Remember the days of old, Consider the years of generation to generation; Ask thy father, and he will shew thee; Thine elders, and they will tell thee.
Context
v.6Do ye thus requite Jehovah, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father that hath bought thee? He hath made thee, and established thee.
v.7This passage
v.8When 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.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 46:9
Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me;
- Psalms 77:5
I have considered the days of old, The years of ancient times.
- Psalms 119:52
I have remembered thine ordinances of old, O Jehovah, And have comforted myself.
- Judges 6:13
And Gideon said unto him, Oh, my lord, if Jehovah is with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not Jehovah bring us up from Egypt? but now Jehovah hath cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.
- Psalms 78:3
Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.
- Psalms 44:1
We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us, What work thou didst in their days, In the days of old.
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