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Remember the days of old,
    consider the years of generations past.
Ask your father, he will inform you,
    your elders, they will tell you:(A)
When the Most High allotted each nation its heritage,
    when he separated out human beings,(B)
He set up the boundaries of the peoples
    after the number of the divine beings;[a]
But the Lord’s portion was his people;
    his allotted share was Jacob.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 32:8 Divine beings: lit., “sons of God” (see also v. 43); members of the divine assembly; cf. 1 Kgs 22:19; Jb 1:6; 2:1; 38:7; Ps 82; 89:6–7. The nations are portrayed as having their respective tutelary deities.