Is this how you repay the Lord,
you foolish and senseless people?
Isn’t He your Father and Creator?
Didn’t He make you and sustain you?
Remember the days of old;
consider the years long past.
Ask your father, and he will tell you,
your elders, and they will teach you.
When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance[a]
and divided the human race,(A)
He set the boundaries of the peoples
according to the number of the people of Israel.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:8 Or Most High divided the nations
  2. Deuteronomy 32:8 One DSS reads number of the sons of God; LXX reads number of the angels of God

Is this the way you repay(A) the Lord,
    you foolish(B) and unwise people?(C)
Is he not your Father,(D) your Creator,[a]
    who made you and formed you?(E)

Remember the days of old;(F)
    consider the generations long past.(G)
Ask your father and he will tell you,
    your elders, and they will explain to you.(H)
When the Most High(I) gave the nations their inheritance,
    when he divided all mankind,(J)
he set up boundaries(K) for the peoples
    according to the number of the sons of Israel.[b](L)

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:6 Or Father, who bought you
  2. Deuteronomy 32:8 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint) sons of God