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26 From one man,[a] he made every nation of mankind to live over the entire face of the earth. He determined the appointed times and the boundaries where they would live. 27 He did this so they would seek God[b] and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’[c] As some of your own poets have said, ‘Indeed, we are also his offspring.’[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 17:26 Some witnesses to the text read blood.
  2. Acts 17:27 Some witnesses to the text read the Lord.
  3. Acts 17:28 This might be a quotation from Epimenides, who lived around 600 bc.
  4. Acts 17:28 This seems to be a quotation from Aratus, who wrote approximately 270 bc.