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Moses speaks a poetic song to the people of Israel. Moses continues to use parallelism to emphasize what he is saying. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism)

Call to mind

AT: "Remember"

days of ancient times

Moses refers to the time period when the ancestors of the people of Israel were alive. AT: "days of long ago"

think about the years of many ages past

This is a repetition of what Moses just said in the previous portion. Moses wants the people of Israel to focus on their history as a nation. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism)

and he set the boundaries of the peoples, as he also fixed the number of their gods

God assigned each people, together with its gods, to its own territory. In this way, he limited the influence of a people group's idols. But he made the Israelites his own people. Ancient versions differ on how to read this passage, so modern versions differ also.