Numbers 33:53
Good News Translation
Occupy the land and settle in it, because I am giving it to you.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.

Contemporary English Version
Then settle in the land--I have given it to you as your own.

New American Bible
You will take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Cleansing the land, and dwelling in it. For I have given it you for a possession.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Cleansing the land, and dwelling in it. For I have given it you for a possession.

Deuteronomy 32:8 When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the bounds of people according to the number of the children of Israel.

Psalm 24:1,2 On the first day of the week, a psalm for David. The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof: the world, and all they that dwell therein. . . .

Psalm 115:16 The heaven of heaven is the Lord's: but the earth he has given to the children of men.

Jeremiah 27:5,6 I made the earth, and the men and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power, and by my stretched out arm: and I have given it to whom it seemed good in my eyes. . . .

Daniel 4:17,25,32 The tree which thou sawest, which was high and strong, whose height reached to the skies, and the sight thereof into all the earth: . . .

Matthew 20:15 Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? Is thy eye evil, because I am good?

Context
Instructions for Occupying Canaan
52Destroy all the inhabitants of that land: Beat down their pillars, and break in pieces their statues, and waste all their high places, 53Cleansing the land, and dwelling in it. For I have given it you for a possession.54And you shall divide it among you by lot. To the more you shall give a larger part, and to the fewer a lesser. To every one as the lot shall fall, so shall the inheritance be given. The possession shall be divided by the tribes and the families.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:17
If thou say in thy heart: These nations are more than I, how shall I be able to destroy them?

Deuteronomy 11:31
For you shall pass over the Jordan, to possess the land, which the Lord your God will give you, that you may have it and possess it.

Deuteronomy 17:14
When thou art come into the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee, and possessest it, and shalt say: I will set a king over me, as all nations have that are round about:

Joshua 21:43
And the Lord God gave to Israel all the land that he had sworn to give to their fathers: and they possessed it, and dwelt in it.

Joshua 23:5
The Lord your God will destroy them, and take them away from before your face, and you shall possess the land as he hath promised you.

Numbers 33:52
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