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Is this how you pay the Lord, you foolish people who are not wise? Is He not your Father Who has bought you? He has made you and given you your place. Remember the days long ago. Think of the years of all people. Ask your father and he will show you. Ask your leaders. They will tell you. When the Most High divided up the world among the nations, he divided the children of men. He set the place where each nation was to live by the number of the sons of Israel.

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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