Deuteronomy 32:9
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New International Version (©2011)
For the LORD's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"For the people of Israel belong to the LORD; Jacob is his special possession.

English Standard Version (©2001)
But the LORD’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"For the LORD'S portion is His people; Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
But the LORD's portion is His people, Jacob, His own inheritance.

International Standard Version (©2012)
For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is his allotted portion.

NET Bible (©2006)
For the LORD's allotment is his people, Jacob is his special possession.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But the LORD's people were his property. Jacob was his own possession.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

American King James Version
For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

American Standard Version
For Jehovah's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his inheritance.

Darby Bible Translation
For Jehovah's portion is his people; Jacob the lot of his inheritance.

English Revised Version
For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

Webster's Bible Translation
For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

World English Bible
For Yahweh's portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

Young's Literal Translation
For Jehovah's portion is His people, Jacob is the line of His inheritance.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

32:7-14 Moses gives particular instances of God's kindness and concern for them. The eagle's care for her young is a beautiful emblem of Christ's love, who came between Divine justice and our guilty souls, and bare our sins in his own body on the tree. And by the preached gospel, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, He stirs up and prevails upon sinners to leave Satan's bondage. In ver. 13,14, are emblems of the conquest believers have over their spiritual enemies, sin, Satan, and the world, in and through Christ. Also of their safety and triumph in him; of their happy frames of soul, when they are above the world, and the things of it. This will be the blessed case of spiritual Israel in every sense in the latter day.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For the Lord's portion is his people, Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. This is the reason why the Lord so early provided a portion or inheritance for the children of Israel in the land of Canaan; because they were his part, his portion, his inheritance, which he chose by lot for himself, or allotted to himself; whom he chose to be his special and peculiar people; for though all the world is his, he only reserved a part for himself, which he separated from all the rest, and considers as his portion and inheritance, see Psalm 33:12; thus the spiritual Israel of God, as they are his people, whom he has chosen, taken into covenant, given to Christ, and are redeemed and saved by him; they are his part or portion, separated by distinguishing grace from the rest of the world; and are the inheritance of Christ, who is appointed heir of all things, and is an unalienable inheritance; and is obtained by lot, or rather is measured out by a rod or line; by the line of electing grace, by which the church and people of God are circumscribed, marked out, and distinguished from others; and by the line and rule of the sacred Scriptures, which are the measure and standard of faith and practice, of worship and discipline to them.

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The Song of Moses
…8When 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. 9For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 10He 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. …

Exodus 34:9 "Lord," he said, "if I have found favor in your eyes, then let the Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our wickedness and our sin, and take us as your inheritance."
1 Samuel 10:1 Then Samuel took a flask of olive oil and poured it on Saul's head and kissed him, saying, "Has not the LORD anointed you ruler over his inheritance?
2 Samuel 14:16 Perhaps the king will agree to deliver his servant from the hand of the man who is trying to cut off both me and my son from God's inheritance.'
1 Kings 8:51 for they are your people and your inheritance, whom you brought out of Egypt, out of that iron-smelting furnace.
1 Kings 8:53 For you singled them out from all the nations of the world to be your own inheritance, just as you declared through your servant Moses when you, Sovereign LORD, brought our ancestors out of Egypt."
Psalm 28:9 Save your people and bless your inheritance; be their shepherd and carry them forever.
Psalm 74:2 Remember the nation you purchased long ago, the people of your inheritance, whom you redeemed-- Mount Zion, where you dwelt.
Psalm 106:40 Therefore the LORD was angry with his people and abhorred his inheritance.
Jeremiah 10:16 He who is the Portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the Maker of all things, including Israel, the people of his inheritance-- the LORD Almighty is his name.
Zechariah 2:12 The LORD will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land and will again choose Jerusalem.