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17 lines
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Moses speaks a poetic song to the people of Israel. Moses continues to use parallelism to emphasize what he is saying. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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## Call to mind ##
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AT: "Remember"
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## days of ancient times ##
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Moses refers to the time period when the ancestors of the people of Israel were alive. AT: "days of long ago"
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## think about the years of many ages past ##
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This is a repetition of what Moses just said in the previous portion. Moses wants the people of Israel to focus on their history as a nation. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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## and he set the boundaries of the peoples, as he also fixed the number of their gods ##
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God assigned each people, together with its gods, to its own territory. In this way, he limited the influence of a people group's idols. But he made the Israelites his own people. Ancient versions differ on how to read this passage, so modern versions differ also.
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