Deuteronomy 31:25

31:25 he ¹  commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the Lord’s covenant,

Deuteronomy 32:9

32:9 For the Lord’s allotment is his people,

Jacob is his special possession. ² 

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¹ tn Heb “Moses.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

² tc Heb “the portion of his inheritance.” The LXX and Smr add “Israel” and BHS suggests the reconstruction: “The Lord’s allotment is Jacob, the portion of his inheritance is Israel” (cf. NAB). While providing good parallelism, it destroys a fine chiastic structure: “allotment” (a), “his people” (b), “Jacob (b’), and “inheritance” (a’).