When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,
when he divided mankind,
he fixed the borders of the peoples
according to the number of the sons of God.
But the Lord’s portion is his people,
Jacob his allotted heritage. -Dt 32:8–9.
When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,
when he divided mankind,
he fixed the borders of the peoples
according to the number of the sons of God.
But the Lord’s portion is his people,
Jacob his allotted heritage. -Dt 32:8–9.
The Jews changed this scripture to read "according to the number of the sons of Israel".
While many translations read “sons of Israel” in Deut 32:8 (following the traditional Hebrew text’s reading of benei yisrael), “sons of God” (benei elohim in Hebrew) is the more probable original Hebrew reading based on manuscript evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls (ca. 250 bc–ad 50). The Septuagint, the ancient Greek translation of the ot, also attests to reading “God,” not “Israel” for this verse.
John D. Barry et al., Faithlife Study Bible (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2012, 2016), Dt 32:8.