Orthodox Jewish Bible

Gevurot 17:26-30 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

26. "And Hashem made from one ancestor every nation of anashim dwelling pnei kol haAretz. And Hashem has set the zmanim and the fixed boundaries of their habitations, [Dt 32:8; Job 12:23]

27. "So that they would seek Hashem, if efsher (perhaps) they might grope for Him and might find Him, though Hashem is not far from each one of us. [Dt 4:7; Isa 55:6; Jer 23:23,24]

28. "For 'we live in Him and in Him we move and have our being,' as also some of your poets have said, 'For we are all His offspring.' [Dt 30:20; Job 12:10; Dan 5:23; Epimenides; Aratus]

29. "Therefore, being offspring of Hashem, we ought not to think that Hashem's essence is like gold or silver or stone, a tzelem (image) made by the skill and thought of Bnei Adam. [Isa 40:18-20]

30. "While Hashem has disregarded and let pass the Am HaAretz times of ignorance, now, however, Hashem proclaims to kol bnei Adam everywhere, Make teshuva,