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Remember the old days, the years long past;[a]
    ask your father, and he will inform you,
    your elders and they will tell you.[b]
When the Most High apportioned[c] the nations,
    at his dividing up of the sons of humankind,
he fixed the boundaries of the peoples,
    according to the number of the children of Israel.[d]
For Yahweh’s portion was his people,
    Jacob the share of his inheritance.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:7 Literally “the years of from generation to generation”
  2. Deuteronomy 32:7 Hebrew “to you”
  3. Deuteronomy 32:8 Literally “In/at the apportioning of the Most High”
  4. Deuteronomy 32:8 LXX reads “the number of the angels of God”; Dead Sea Scrolls reads “the number of the sons of God”