Deuteronomy 32:8
KJV
When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
When the Most High divided the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the peoples "according to the number of the sons of God" (per the Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint reading; the Masoretic Text, reflected in the KJV above, reads "children of Israel" instead).
A key textual variant. Paired with verse 9, where the Lord's own portion is Jacob, this frames the other nations as allotted to lesser divine beings.
CKQ Commentary
C.K. Quarterman holds that the older Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint readings support "sons of God," tying the division of the nations to a supernatural framework rather than a purely Israel-centered one.
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