Psalms 105:12

In 11 translations

BSB

When they were few in number, few indeed, and strangers in the land,

KJV

When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.

WEB

when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.

ASV

When they were but a few men in number, Yea, very few, and sojourners in it.

LSV

In their being few in number, || But a few, and sojourners in it.

YLT

In their being few in number, But a few, and sojourners in it.

DBY

When they were a few men in number, of small account, and strangers in it.

DRC104:12

When they were but a small number: yea very few, and sojourners therein:

GNV

Albeit they were fewe in nomber, yea, very fewe, and strangers in the land,

JPS

When they were but a few men in number. Yea, very few, and sojourners in it,

LXXE104:12

when they were few in number, very few, and sojourners in it.

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WLC

בִּֽ֭הְיוֹתָם מְתֵ֣י מִסְפָּ֑ר כִּ֝מְעַ֗ט וְגָרִ֥ים בָּֽהּ׃

LXX-Br104:12

Ἐν τῷ εἶναι αὐτοὺς ἀριθμῷ βραχεῖς, ὀλιγοστοὺς καὶ παροίκους ἐν αὐτῇ,

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Cross-references most cited first

• Deuteronomy 7:7The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.
• Genesis 34:30Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and…
• Genesis 23:4“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”
• Hebrews 11:9By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.
• Deuteronomy 26:5and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.
• Isaiah 51:2Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and multiplied him.
• Genesis 17:8And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”
• Ezekiel 33:24–33“Son of man, those living in the ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as a possession.’ Therefore tell them…
• Acts 7:5He gave him no inheritance here, not even a foot of ground. But God promised to give possession of the land to Abraham and his descendants, even though he did not yet have a child.
• Hebrews 11:12And so from one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.

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