Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
In their being few in number, But a few, and sojourners in it.
New American Standard Bible
Very few, and
King James Version
When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
Holman Bible
very few indeed,
and temporary residents in Canaan,
International Standard Version
When the Hebrews were few in number so very few and were sojourners in it,
A Conservative Version
when they were but a few men in number, yea, very few, and sojourners in it.
American Standard Version
When they were but a few men in number, Yea, very few, and sojourners in it.
Amplified
When there were only a few men in number,
Very few [in fact], and strangers in it;
Bible in Basic English
When they were still small in number, and strange in the land;
Darby Translation
When they were a few men in number, of small account, and strangers in it.
Julia Smith Translation
In their being men of number, as few and strangers in it.
King James 2000
When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
Lexham Expanded Bible
When they were {few in number}-- a trifle--and [were] sojourners in it,
Modern King James verseion
when they were a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
When there was yet but a few of them - and they strangers in the land -
NET Bible
When they were few in number, just a very few, and resident aliens within it,
New Heart English Bible
when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.
The Emphasized Bible
While as yet they were men easily counted, - A very few, and sojourners therein;
Webster
When they were a few men in number; yes, very few, and strangers in it.
World English Bible
when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 105:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise To Yahweh For His Work On Behalf Of Israel
11 Saying, 'To thee I give the land of Canaan, The portion of your inheritance,' 12 In their being few in number, But a few, and sojourners in it. 13 And they go up and down, from nation unto nation, From a kingdom unto another people.
Cross References
Genesis 34:30
And Jacob saith unto Simeon and unto Levi, 'Ye have troubled me, by causing me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanite, and among the Perizzite: and I am few in number, and they have been gathered against me, and have smitten me, and I have been destroyed, I and my house.'
Deuteronomy 7:7
Not because of your being more numerous than any of the peoples hath Jehovah delighted in you, and fixeth on you, for ye are the least of all the peoples,
Hebrews 11:9
by faith he did sojourn in the land of the promise as a strange country, in tabernacles having dwelt with Isaac and Jacob, fellow-heirs of the same promise,
Genesis 23:4
A sojourner and a settler I am with you; give to me a possession of a burying-place with you, and I bury my dead from before me.'
Deuteronomy 26:5
And thou hast answered and said before Jehovah thy God, A perishing Aramaean is my father! and he goeth down to Egypt, and sojourneth there with few men, and becometh there a nation, great, mighty, and numerous;
Genesis 17:8
and I have given to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, the whole land of Canaan, for a possession age-during, and I have become their God.'
Isaiah 51:2
Look attentively unto Abraham your father, And unto Sarah -- she bringeth you forth, For -- one -- I have called him, And I bless him, and multiply him.
Ezekiel 33:24-33
Son of man, the inhabitants of these wastes on the ground of Israel are speaking, saying: Alone hath been Abraham -- and he possesseth the land, and we are many -- to us hath the land been given for a possession.
Acts 7:5
and He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a footstep, and did promise to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him -- he having no child.
Hebrews 11:12
wherefore, also from one were begotten -- and that of one who had become dead -- as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as sand that is by the sea-shore -- the innumerable.