KJV King James Version
And ye shall dispossess [the inhabitants of] the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
And ye shall dispossess [the inhabitants of] the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
And ye shall dispossess [the inhabitants of] the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
You are to take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.
You shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein; for I have given given the land to you to possess it.
and ye shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein; for unto you have I given the land to possess it.
and ye have possessed the land, and dwelt in it, for to you I have given the land—to possess it.
50 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho, saying,
51 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
52 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
53 And ye shall dispossess [the inhabitants of] the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
54 And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: [and] to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man’s [inheritance] shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.
55 But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them [shall be] pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
56 Moreover it shall come to pass, [that] I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.
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