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.
Ver. 8. He set the bounds of the people.] Of the seventy nations reckoned, Gen 10:1-32 and the seventy souls of Israel. Gen 46:27 Deu 10:22 The Jews have a saying, that those seventy souls were as much as all the seventy nations of the world, as being the Lord's portion, for whom he espied out the land of Canaan, which is "the glory of all lands." Eze 20:6