KJV King James Version
For the LORD’S portion [is] his people; Jacob [is] the lot of his inheritance.
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Deuteronomy 32:9
For the LORD’S portion [is] his people; Jacob [is] the lot of his inheritance.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.
WEB World English Bible
For Yahweh’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
ASV American Standard Version
For Jehovah’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For Jehovah’s portion is His people, Jacob is the line of His inheritance.
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 32
6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? [is] not he thy father [that] hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
8 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.
9 For the LORD’S portion [is] his people; Jacob [is] the lot of his inheritance.
10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
12 [So] the LORD alone did lead him, and [there was] no strange god with him.
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Jeremiah 10:16The portion of Jacob [is] not like them: for he [is] the former of all [things]; and Israel [is] the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts [is] his name.1 Peter 2:9-10But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:Exodus 19:5-6Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth [is] mine:1 Kings 8:51For they [be] thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:1 Kings 8:53For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, [to be] thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.Jeremiah 51:19The portion of Jacob [is] not like them; for he [is] the former of all things: and [Israel is] the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts [is] his name.Isaiah 43:21This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.Deuteronomy 26:18-19And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that [thou] shouldest keep all his commandments;Psalm 135:4For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, [and] Israel for his peculiar treasure.Psalm 78:71From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.Exodus 15:16Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be [as] still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, [which] thou hast purchased.Micah 2:5Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.Ephesians 1:18The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,1 Samuel 10:1Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured [it] upon his head, and kissed him, and said, [Is it] not because the LORD hath anointed thee [to be] captain over his inheritance?
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