Deuteronomy 7:17

Bible in Basic English

If you say in your hearts, These nations are greater in number than we are: how are we to take their land from them?

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

King James Version
If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

Lexham English Bible
"If you think in your heart, ‘These nations are more numerous than I, so how can I dispossess them?'

English Standard Version
"If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I. How can I dispossess them?'

New Century Version
You might say to yourselves, "Because these nations are stronger than we are, we can't force them out."

New English Translation
If you think, "These nations are more numerous than I—how can I dispossess them?"

Amplified Bible
"If you say in your heart, 'These nations are greater than I am; how can I dispossess them?'

New American Standard Bible
"If you say in your heart, 'These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?'

Geneva Bible (1587)
If thou say in thine heart, These nations are moe then I, how can I cast them out?

Legacy Standard Bible
"If you should say in your heart, ‘These nations are more numerous than I; how can I dispossess them?'

Contemporary English Version
You may be thinking, "How can we destroy these nations? They are more powerful than we are."

Complete Jewish Bible
If you think to yourselves, ‘These nations outnumber us; how can we dispossess them?'

Darby Translation
If thou shouldest say in thy heart, These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?

Easy-to-Read Version
"Don't say in your heart, ‘These nations are stronger than we are. How can we force them out?'

George Lamsa Translation
If you shall say in your heart, These nations are greater than I; how will I be able to destroy them?

Good News Translation
"Do not tell yourselves that these peoples outnumber you and that you cannot drive them out.

Christian Standard Bible®
“If you say to yourself, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I drive them out?’

Literal Translation
If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more plentiful than I; how can I throw them out?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf thou shalt saye in thyne hert: These nacios are mo then I, how ca I dryue them out?

American Standard Version
If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
If thou say in thine heart: these nations are mo then I, howe can I cast them out?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
If thou shalt say in thy heart: 'These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?'

King James Version (1611)
If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are moe then I, howe can I dispossesse them?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But if thou shouldest say in thine heart, This nation is greater than I, how shall I be able to destroy them utterly?

English Revised Version
If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

Berean Standard Bible
You may say in your heart, "These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?"

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If thou seist in thin herte, These folkis ben mo than Y, hou may Y do awei hem?

Young's Literal Translation
`When thou sayest in thine heart, These nations [are] more numerous than I, how am I able to dispossess them? --

Update Bible Version
If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

Webster's Bible Translation
If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations [are] more than I, how can I dispossess them?

World English Bible
If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

New King James Version
"If you should say in your heart, "These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?'--

New Living Translation
Perhaps you will think to yourselves, ‘How can we ever conquer these nations that are so much more powerful than we are?'

New Life Bible
"You may say in your heart, ‘These nations are stronger than I. How can I drive them out?'

New Revised Standard
If you say to yourself, "These nations are more numerous than I; how can I dispossess them?"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Although thou mightest say in thy heart: More in number, are these nations than I, - how can, I dispossess them?

Douay-Rheims Bible
If thou say in thy heart: These nations are more than I, how shall I be able to destroy them?

Revised Standard Version
"If you say in your heart, 'These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?'

THE MESSAGE
You're going to think to yourselves, "Oh! We're outnumbered ten to one by these nations! We'll never even make a dent in them!" But I'm telling you, Don't be afraid. Remember, yes, remember in detail what God , your God, did to Pharaoh and all Egypt. Remember the great contests to which you were eyewitnesses: the miracle-signs, the wonders, God 's mighty hand as he stretched out his arm and took you out of there. God , your God, is going to do the same thing to these people you're now so afraid of.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If you should say in your heart, 'These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?'

Contextual Overview

¹² And it will be, that if you give attention to these decisions and keep and do them, then the Lord will keep his agreement with you and his mercy, as he said in his oath to your fathers. ¹³ And he will give you his love, blessing you and increasing you: he will send his blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give you. ¹⁴ You will have greater blessings than any other people: no male or female among you or among your cattle will be without offspring. ¹⁵ And the Lord will take away from you all disease, and will not put on you any of the evil diseases of Egypt which you have seen, but will put them on your haters. ¹⁶ And you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives into your hands; have no pity on them, and do not give worship to their gods; for that will be a cause of sin to you. ¹⁷ If you say in your hearts, These nations are greater in number than we are: how are we to take their land from them? ¹⁸ Have no fear of them, but keep well in mind what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt; ¹⁹ The great punishments which your eyes saw, and the signs and the wonders and the strong hand and the stretched-out arm, by which the Lord your God took you out: so will the Lord your God do to all the peoples who are the cause of your fears. ²⁰ And the Lord will send a hornet among them, till all the rest who have kept themselves safe from you in secret places have been cut off. ²¹ Have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, a great God greatly to be feared.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thou shalt: Deuteronomy 8:17, Deuteronomy 15:9, Deuteronomy 18:21, Isaiah 14:13, Isaiah 47:8, Isaiah 49:21, Jeremiah 13:22, Luke 9:47

These nations: Numbers 13:32, Numbers 33:53, Joshua 17:16-18

Cross-References

Genesis 7:4
For after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the face of the earth.

Genesis 7:12
And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If thou shall say in thine heart,.... Should have secret thoughts arise in the heart, misgivings of heart, fears and doubts there, which, though not outwardly expressed, might be inwardly retained:

these nations are more than I; seven to one, and perhaps anyone of them as powerful as Israel:

how can I dispossess them? of the land they inherit, and take possession of it.