Deuteronomy 32:7-9

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁷ 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.
⁸ 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]
9 the Lord’s own portion was his people,
    Jacob his allotted share.