Deuteronomy 32:40

In 11 translations

BSB

For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,

KJV

For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.

WEB

For I lift up my hand to heaven and declare, as I live forever,

ASV

For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live for ever,

LSV

For I lift up My hand to the heavens, || And have said, I live for all time!

YLT

For I lift up unto the heavens My hand, And have said, I live — to the age!

DBY

For I lift up my hand to the heavens, and say, I live for ever!

DRC

I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live for ever.

GNV

For I lift vp mine hand to heauen, and say, I liue for euer.

JPS

For I lift up My hand to heaven, and say: As I live for ever,

LXXE

For I will lift up my hand to heaven, and swear by my right hand, and I will say, I live for ever.

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Original-language editions

WLC

כִּֽי־אֶשָּׂ֥א אֶל־שָׁמַ֖יִם יָדִ֑י וְאָמַ֕רְתִּי חַ֥י אָנֹכִ֖י לְעֹלָֽם׃

LXX-Br

Ὅτι ἀρῶ εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν τὴν χεῖρά μου, καὶ ὀμοῦμαι τὴν δεξιάν μου· καὶ ἐρῶ, ζῶ ἐγὼ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα·

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Genesis 14:22But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand to the LORD God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,
• Hebrews 6:17–18So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath. Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who…
• Jeremiah 4:2and if you can swear, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then the nations will be blessed by Him, and in Him they will glory.”
• Revelation 10:5–6Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to heaven. And he swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and everything in it, the earth and everything in it,…
• Numbers 14:28–30So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say. Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or…
• Exodus 6:8And I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD!’”

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