Acts 17:26
God “hath made of one blood all nations of men.” Irenaeus quotes Paul’s words so about AD 180, and Chrysostom about 400. It is the reading of the great majority of Greek manuscripts and of Codex Bezae of the fifth century.
The King James Bible
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And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
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αἵματος
aimatos
Greek Manuscripts
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Checked against: TAGNT (Robinson–Pierpont)
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Codex Bezae D 05Checked against: CNTR transcription
Church Fathers
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“Who has made from one blood the whole race of men to dwell upon the face of the whole earth.”
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“And made, he says, of one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth.”
Checked against: NPNF1 11
Printed Greek Texts with This Reading
- Textus Receptus · The Greek text the KJV was translated from, as Scrivener printed it (1894)
- Majority Text · The Byzantine text, read by the great majority of Greek manuscripts (Robinson and Pierpont, 2005)
Quotations from the Ante-Nicene and Nicene Fathers translations. Edition data from the Translators Amalgamated Greek NT, STEPBible.org (CC BY). About these texts and witnesses.
