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Deuteronomy 32:8 KJV
Deuteronomy · chapter 32 · verse 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.Deuteronomy 32:8 · King James Version
Deuteronomy 32:8 in context
6Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
7Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
8When 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.
9For the LORD’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
10He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
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Key words (Strong's)
- separatedpâradto break throughH6504 →
- dividednâchalto inherit mode of descent), or to occupyH5157 →
- nationsgôwya foreign nationH1471 →
- boundsgᵉbûwlâha boundary, regionH1367 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- numbermiçpâra number, definite or indefinite (large, innumerableH4557 →
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Moses, having in general represented God to them as their great benefactor, whom they were bound in gratitude to observe and obey, in these verses gives particular instances of God's kindness to them and concern for them. 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-14