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From the Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary:
BAAL (Bāʹ ȧl)
Lord of Canaanite religion and seen in the thunderstorms, Baal was worshiped as the god who provided fertility. He proved a great temptation for Israel. “Baal” occurs in the OT as a noun meaning “lord, owner, possessor, or husband,” as a proper noun referring to the supreme god of the ...
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The word, "'elohiym" in Hebrew can properly be seen as meaning, "God", "gods", "divine beings". So, you might say that the meaning was that he was keeping house of Jacob apart from the rest of the world and marking it as, "his" in the chosen sense of the word.
This reinforces the idea that being "holy", in Hebrew, really means being separate, set apart (see ...
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I'm curious which translation you're using?
This should probably be a comment rather than an answer, but I wanted to include some common translations for comparison.
It looks like it's more commonly translated as "sons/children of God/Israel"
Deuteronomy 32:8-9 (YLT)
8 In the Most High causing nations to inherit, In His separating sons of Adam ...
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