Deuteronomy 32:6-8

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁶ Do you thus repay the Lord,
    O foolish and senseless people?
Is not he your father, who created you,
    who made you and established you?
⁷ Remember the days of old,
    consider the years long past;
ask your father, and he will inform you;
    your elders, and they will tell you.
⁸ When the Most High^[a] apportioned the nations,
    when he divided humankind,
he fixed the boundaries of the peoples
    according to the number of the gods;^[b]