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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.

10 He sustained[c] him in a desert land,
    in a howling wilderness waste;
he shielded him, cared for him,
    guarded him as the apple of his eye.

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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
  3. Deuteronomy 32:10 Sam Gk Compare Tg: MT found

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