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1 Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan so you can dispossess the nations there, people greater and stronger than you who live in large cities with extremely high fortifications. 2 They include the Anakites, a numerous and tall people whom you know about and of whom it is said, |Who is able to resist the Anakites?| 3 Understand today that the LORD your God who goes before you is a devouring fire; he will defeat and subdue them before you. You will dispossess and destroy them quickly just as he has told you. 4 Do not think to yourself after the LORD your God has driven them out before you, |Because of my own righteousness the LORD has brought me here to possess this land.| It is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out ahead of you. Deuteronomy 9:1-4, New English Translation. Copyright © 1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press.
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