Deuteronomy 33:3

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“Surely You love the people; all the holy ones are in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; each receives Your words—”

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BSBPD

“Surely You love the people; all the holy ones are in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; each receives Your words—”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Yea, he loveth the people; All his saints are in thy hand: And they sat down at thy feet; Every oneshall receive of thy words.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Also He <FI>is<Fi> loving the peoples; All His holy ones <FI>are<Fi> in thy hand, And they--they sat down at thy foot, <FI>Each<Fi> He lifteth up at thy words.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Deuteronomy 33:3 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 19:5Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
  2. Deuteronomy 7:6For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.
  3. Deuteronomy 7:8But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
  4. Deuteronomy 14:2for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
  5. 1 Samuel 2:9He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.
  6. Psalms 31:15My times are in Your hands; deliver me from my enemies and from those who pursue me.
  7. Psalms 47:4He chooses our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom He loves. Selah
  8. Psalms 50:5“Gather to Me My saints, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”
  9. Psalms 147:19He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel.
  10. Proverbs 2:1My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
  11. Jeremiah 2:2“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
  12. Jeremiah 31:3The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
  13. Jeremiah 32:40I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.
  14. Hosea 11:1When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.
  15. Malachi 1:2“I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved,
  16. Luke 2:46Finally, after three days they found Him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
  17. Luke 8:35So the people went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man whom the demons had left, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
  18. Luke 10:39She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to His message.
  19. John 10:28I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.
  20. John 17:11I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one.
  21. Acts 22:3“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but raised in this city. I was educated at the feet of Gamaliel in strict conformity to the law of our fathers. I am just as zealous for God as any of you here today.
  22. Romans 8:35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
  23. Romans 9:11Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand,
  24. Ephesians 2:4But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,

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