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Remember the days of old,
    consider the years long past;
ask your father, and he will inform you;
    your elders, and they will tell you.
When the Most High[a] apportioned the nations,
    when he divided humankind,
he fixed the boundaries of the peoples
    according to the number of the gods;[b]
the Lord’s own portion was his people,
    Jacob his allotted share.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:8 Traditional rendering of Heb Elyon
  2. Deuteronomy 32:8 Q Ms Compare Gk Tg: MT the Israelites

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