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Deuteronomy 32:7

5 His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.

6 Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?

Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.

8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

9 But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.
KJV
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.
WEB
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.
ASV
Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations: Ask thy father, and he will show thee; Thine elders, and they will tell thee.
DARBY
Remember the days of old, Consider the years of generation to generation; Ask thy father, and he will shew thee; Thine elders, and they will tell thee.
BLB
Remember the days of old, consider the years of generation upon generation. Ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.
ÅB
Kom de eldgamle dager i hu, gi akt på årene fra slekt til slekt! Spør din far, han vil kunngjøre deg det - dine gamle, de vil si deg det.
OTB
Husk de gamle dager, tenk på årene sett av mange generasjoner. Spør din far, og han vil vise deg; dine eldste, og de vil minne deg.
B1930
Kom de eldgamle dager i hu, gi akt på årene fra slekt til slekt! Spør din far, han vil kunngjøre dig det - dine gamle, de vil si dig det.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Psalms 78:3–4

    that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.

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  • Psalms 44:1

    We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.

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  • Job 8:8–10

    Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers.

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  • Isaiah 46:9

    Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me.

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  • Psalms 77:5–6

    I considered the days of old, the years long in the past.

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  • Deuteronomy 4:32

    Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?

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  • Exodus 13:14

    In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

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  • Isaiah 63:11

    Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,

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