Deuteronomy 32:8

When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when He separated the children of men, He set the borders of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

In Context

7Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations; ask thy father, and he will declare unto thee, thine elders, and they will tell thee.

9For the portion of the LORD is His people, Jacob the lot of His inheritance.

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Cross References

Genesis 10:15And Canaan begot Zidon his firstborn, and Heth;

Genesis 11:8So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city.

Numbers 24:16The saying of him who heareth the words of God, and knoweth the knowledge of the Most High, who seeth the vision of the Almighty, fallen down, yet with opened eyes:

Job 15:19Unto whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them.

Psalms 50:14Offer unto God the sacrifice of thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the Most High;

Psalms 91:1O thou that dwellest in the covert of the Most High, and abidest in the shadow of the Almighty;

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 32:8-15

7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. 8 When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. 9 For the Lord 's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept… Read the whole commentary →

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