Deuteronomy 32:26

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“I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,”

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BSBPD

“I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“I have said: I blow them away, I cause their remembrance to cease from man;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Deuteronomy 32:26 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 32:12Why should the Egyptians declare, ‘He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce anger and relent from doing harm to Your people.
  2. Leviticus 26:33But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.
  3. Leviticus 26:38You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.
  4. Deuteronomy 4:27Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
  5. Deuteronomy 9:14Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”
  6. Deuteronomy 28:25The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
  7. Deuteronomy 28:37You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
  8. Deuteronomy 28:64Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
  9. Psalms 34:16But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.
  10. Psalms 34:17The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears; He delivers them from all their troubles.
  11. Isaiah 63:16Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
  12. Luke 21:24They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

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