Acts 17:26
Good News Translation
From one human being he created all races of people and made them live throughout the whole earth. He himself fixed beforehand the exact times and the limits of the places where they would live.

New Revised Standard Version
From one ancestor he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live,

Contemporary English Version
From one person God made all nations who live on earth, and he decided when and where every nation would be.

New American Bible
He made from one the whole human race to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times and the limits of their habitation.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times and the limits of their habitation.

hath made.

Genesis 3:20 And Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living.

Genesis 9:19 These three are the sons of Noe: and from these was all mankind spread over the whole earth.

Malachi 2:10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why then doth every one of us despise his brother, violating the covenant of our fathers?

Romans 5:12-19 Wherefore as by one man sin entered into this world and by sin death: and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned. . . .

1 Corinthians 15:22,47 And as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made alive. . . .

hath determined.

Acts 15:18 To the Lord was his own work known from the beginning of the world.

Deuteronomy 32:7,8 Remember the days of old, think upon every generation: ask thy father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and they will tell thee. . . .

Job 14:5 The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed.

Psalm 31:15 My lots are in thy hands. Deliver me out of the hands of my enemies; and from them that persecute me.

Isaiah 14:31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city: all Philistia is thrown down: for a smoke shall come from the north, and there is none that shall escape his troop.

Isaiah 45:21 Tell ye, and come, and consult together: who hath declared this from the beginning, who hath foretold this from that time? Have not I the Lord, and there is no God else besides me? A just God and a saviour, there is none besides me.

Daniel 11:27,35 And the heart of the two kings shall be to do evil, and they shall speak lies at one table, and they shall not prosper: because as yet the end is unto another time. . . .

Hebrews 2:3 How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? Which, having begun to be declared by the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard him.

Context
Paul Before the Areopagus
25Neither is he served with men's hands, as though he needed any thing: seeing it is he who giveth to all life and breath and all things: 26And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times and the limits of their habitation. 27That they should seek God, if haply they may feel after him or find him, although he be not far from every one of us.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:8
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.

Job 12:23
He multiplieth nations, and destroyeth them, and restoreth them again after they were overthrown.

Psalm 74:17
Thou hast made all the borders of the earth: the summer and the spring were formed by thee.

Jeremiah 27:5
I made the earth, and the men and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power, and by my stretched out arm: and I have given it to whom it seemed good in my eyes.

Malachi 2:10
Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why then doth every one of us despise his brother, violating the covenant of our fathers?

Acts 14:17
Nevertheless he left not himself without testimony, doing good from heaven, giving rains and fruitful Seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

Acts 17:25
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