When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.
The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will and sets over it the lowliest of men.’
The heavens are the Lord's heavens, but the earth he has given to the children of man.
but you, O Lord, are on high forever.
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites.”
To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother's name was Joktan.
Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth,
Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made by hands, as the prophet says,
O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father kingship and greatness and glory and majesty.
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’
I said, “You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you;
Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High,
I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.
the oracle of him who hears the words of God, and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down with his eyes uncovered:
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