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Deuteronomy 32:8 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel. "

Deuteronomy 32:8

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6 Is this the way you repay the LORD, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.

7 Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.

9 For the LORD’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

10 He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.

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Related Verses

Psalms 78:55

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"He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents."

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1 Kings 8:53

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"For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord GOD.”"

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Joshua 23:4

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"Behold, I have allotted to you these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the great sea toward the going down of the sun."

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Esther 14:5

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"I have heard from my birth in the tribe of my kindred that you, Lord, took Israel out of all the nations, and our fathers out of all their kindred for a perpetual inheritance, and have done for them all that you have said."

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Acts 17:26

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"He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons and the boundaries of their dwellings,"

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Psalms 74:17

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"You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter."

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From This Chapter

Deuteronomy 32:1

"Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth."

Deuteronomy 32:2

"My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb."

Deuteronomy 32:3

"For I will proclaim the LORD’s name. Ascribe greatness to our God!"

Deuteronomy 32:4

"The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he."

Deuteronomy 32:5

"They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation."

Deuteronomy 32:6

"Is this the way you repay the LORD, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you."

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