Deuteronomy 9:2-4
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
2 the Anakim, a people great and tall.(A) You yourselves know of them and have heard it said of them, “Who can stand up against the Anakim?” 3 Know, then, today that it is the Lord, your God, who will cross over before you as a consuming fire; he it is who will destroy them and subdue them before you, so that you can dispossess and remove them quickly, as the Lord promised you.(B) 4 After the Lord, your God, has driven them out of your way, do not say in your heart, “It is because of my justice the Lord has brought me in to possess this land,(C) and because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord is dispossessing them before me.”[a]
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- 9:4 Before me: Hebrew reads “before you.”
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