Deuteronomy 32:8

Most High Heb. -Elyôn, Numbers 24:16; Isaiah 14:14, and many Pss.

gave … inheritance See Deuteronomy 1:38.

separated Genesis 10:32 (P).

children of Israel The purpose of His division was to leave room for Israel's numbers.

But for the sons of IsraelLXX has ἀγγέλων θεοῦ, angels of God, i.e. sons of "El, after a late Jewish conception of a guardian angel for each nation (Daniel 10:13; Daniel 10:20 f., Deuteronomy 12:1, Sir 17:17), an antithesis to Jehovah's own guardianship of Israel in the following vv., which accordingly LXX introduces by and= butin place of Heb. for. This reading and interpretation is accepted by Steuern., Berth., Marti, Robinson. But the text as read by the LXX seems to be rather an adaptation of the Heb. to the conception aforesaid (Dillm.); and it is difficult to see how the Heb. arose out of the LXX text if the latter was original.