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And the anger of Jehovah glowed against Israel. And He said, Because this nation has transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to My voice,

I also from now on will not dispossess any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died;

so that by them I may test Israel, whether they are keeping the way of Jehovah, to go in it, as their fathers kept it, or not.

And Jehovah left those nations without dispossessing them quickly. And He did not deliver them into the hand of Joshua.