Deuteronomy 32:8
Good News Translation
The Most High assigned nations their lands; he determined where peoples should live. He assigned to each nation a heavenly being,

New Revised Standard Version
When the Most High apportioned the nations, when he divided humankind, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the gods;

Contemporary English Version
that God Most High gave land to every nation. He assigned a guardian angel to each of them,

New American Bible
When the Most High allotted each nation its heritage, when he separated out human beings, He set up the boundaries of the peoples after the number of the divine beings;

Douay-Rheims Bible
When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the bounds of people according to the number of the children of Israel.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the bounds of people according to the number of the children of Israel.

Most

Numbers 24:16 The hearer of the words of God hath said, who knoweth the doctrine of the Highest, and seeth the visions of the Almighty, who falling hath his eyes opened:

Psalm 7:17 I will give glory to the Lord according to his justice: and will sing to the name of the Lord the most high.

Psalm 50:14 Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High.

Psalm 82:6 I have said: You are gods and all of you the sons of the most High.

Psalm 91:1 The praise of a canticle for David. He that dwelleth in the aid of the most High, shall abide under the protection of the God of Jacob.

Psalm 92:8 But thou, O Lord, art most high for evermore.

Isaiah 14:14 I will ascend above the height of the clouds, I will be like the most High.

Daniel 4:17 The tree which thou sawest, which was high and strong, whose height reached to the skies, and the sight thereof into all the earth:

Daniel 5:18 O king, the most high God gave to Nabuchodonosor, thy father, a kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and honour.

Acts 7:48 Yet the most High dwelleth not in houses made by hands, as the prophet saith:

divided

Genesis 10:25 And to Heber were born two sons: the name of the one was Phaleg, because in his days was the earth divided: and his brother's name Jectan.

Genesis 11:9 And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries.

Psalm 115:16 The heaven of heaven is the Lord's: but the earth he has given to the children of men.

Acts 17:26 And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times and the limits of their habitation.

he set

Genesis 10:15 And Chanaan begot Sidon his firstborn, the Hethite,

Genesis 15:18-21 That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed will I give this land, from the river to Egypt even to the great river Euphrates. . . .

Context
The Song of Moses
7Remember the days of old, think upon every generation: ask thy father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and they will tell thee. 8When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the bounds of people according to the number of the children of Israel.9But the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his inheritance.…
Cross References
Acts 17:26
And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times and the limits of their habitation.

Numbers 23:9
I shall see him from the tops of the rocks, and shall consider him from the hills. This people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

Deuteronomy 33:28
Israel shall dwell in safety, and alone. The eye of Jacob in a land of corn and wine, and the heavens shall be misty with dew.

Psalm 74:17
Thou hast made all the borders of the earth: the summer and the spring were formed by thee.

Micah 2:5
In that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and a song shall be sung with melody by them that say: We are laid waste and spoiled: the portion of my people is changed: how shall he depart from me, whereas he is returning that will divide our land?

Deuteronomy 32:7
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