- 以色列阿、你當聽.你今日要過約但河、進去趕出比你強大的國民、得著廣大堅固、高得頂天的城邑。
- 那民是亞衲族的人、又大又高、是你所知道的、也曾聽見有人指著他們說、誰能在亞衲族人面前站立得住呢。
- 你今日當知道、耶和華你的 神在你前面過去、如同烈火、要滅絕他們、將他們制伏在你面前、這樣你就要照耶和華所說的趕出他們、使他們速速滅亡。
- 耶和華你的 神將這些國民從你面前攆出以後、你心裡不可說、耶和華將我領進來得這地是因我的義.其實耶和華將他們從你面前趕出去、是因他們的惡。
- 你進去得他們的地、並不是因你的義、也不是因你心裡正直、乃是因這些國民的惡、耶和華你的 神將他們從你面前趕出去、又因耶和華要堅定他向你列祖亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各、起誓所應許的話。
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- "Hear, O Israel! You are crossing over the Jordan today to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, great cities fortified to heaven,
- a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know and of whom you have heard it said, 'Who can stand before the sons of Anak?'
- "Know therefore today that it is the LORD your God who is crossing over before you as a consuming fire He will destroy them and He will subdue them before you, so that you may drive them out and destroy them quickly, just as the LORD has spoken to you.
- "Do not say in your heart when the LORD your God has driven them out before you, 'Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,' but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is dispossessing them before you.
- "It is not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you are going to possess their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God is driving them out before you, in order to confirm the oath which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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