Deuteronomy 32:9
Hebrew Bible
7 Remember the ancient days; bear in mind the years of past generations. Ask your father and he will inform you, your elders, and they will tell you. 8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided up humankind, he set the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the heavenly assembly. 9 For the Lord’s allotment is his people, Jacob is his special possession. 10 The Lord found him in a desolate land, in an empty wasteland where animals howl. He continually guarded him and taught him; he continually protected him like the pupil of his eye. 11 Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that hovers over its young, so the Lord spread out his wings and took him, he lifted him up on his pinions.
Date: 6th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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Jeremiah 10:16
Hebrew Bible
14 All these idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols. 15 They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed. 16 The Lord, who is the inheritance of Jacob’s descendants, is not like them. He is the one who created everything. And the people of Israel are those he claims as his own. His name is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.” 17 “Gather your belongings together and prepare to leave the land, you people of Jerusalem who are being besieged. 18 For the Lord says, ‘I will now throw out those who live in this land. I will bring so much trouble on them that they will actually feel it.’
Date: 5th Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... Before I cite the parallels between Deuteronomy 32 and Jeremiah, I shall state my own conclusion: the poem clearly antedates Jeremiah. The parallels with Jeremiah's words offer substantial data for this conclusion. Not all of the parallels are of equal weight - some are persuasive and some only suggestive ... Jeremiah 10:16 (if genuine to Jeremiah, a conclusion pressed in the present study) appears to be an adaptation of Deuteronomy 32:9: the latter says, 'For Yahweh's portion is his people, Jacob the allotment of his possession,' while l0:16 says, 'Not like these is the portion of Jacob ... and Israel is the tribe of his possession.' ..."
Holladay, William Lee
Jeremiah 2: A Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah, Chapters 26-52
(p. 90) Fortress Press, 1989
* The use of references are not endorsements of their contents. Please read the entirety of the provided reference(s) to understand the author's full intentions regarding the use of these texts.
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