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The Lord your God will also send terror among them so that even those who are alive and hiding from you will die.

Don't be afraid of them, because the Lord your God is with you; he is a great God and people are afraid of him.

When the Lord your God forces those nations out of the land, he will do it little by little ahead of you. You won't be able to destroy them all at once; otherwise, the wild animals will grow too many in number.

But the Lord your God will hand those nations over to you, confusing them until they are destroyed.

Burn up their idols in the fire. Do not wish for the silver and gold they have, and don't take it for yourselves, or you will be trapped by it. The Lord your God hates it.

Remember how the Lord your God has led you in the desert for these forty years, taking away your pride and testing you, because he wanted to know what was in your heart. He wanted to know if you would obey his commands.

Know in your heart that the Lord your God corrects you as a parent corrects a child.

Obey the commands of the Lord your God, living as he has commanded you and respecting him.

The Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with rivers and pools of water, with springs that flow in the valleys and hills,

When you have all you want to eat, then praise the Lord your God for giving you a good land.

Be careful not to forget the Lord your God so that you fail to obey his commands, laws, and rules that I am giving to you today.

then your heart will become proud. You will forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, where you were slaves.

but remember the Lord your God! It is he who gives you the power to become rich, keeping the agreement he promised to your ancestors, as it is today.

If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods and worship them and bow down to them, I warn you today that you will be destroyed.

Just as the Lord destroyed the other nations for you, you can be destroyed if you do not obey the Lord your God.

But today remember that the Lord your God goes in before you to destroy them like a fire that burns things up. He will defeat them ahead of you, and you will force them out and destroy them quickly, just as the Lord has said.

After the Lord your God has forced those nations out ahead of you, don't say to yourself, "The Lord brought me here to take this land because I am so good." No! It is because these nations are evil that the Lord will force them out ahead of you.

You are going in to take the land, not because you are good and honest, but because these nations are evil. That is why the Lord your God will force them out ahead of you, to keep his promise to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

The Lord your God is giving you this good land to take as your own. But know this: It is not because you are good; you are a stubborn people.

Remember this and do not forget it: You made the Lord your God angry in the desert. You would not obey the Lord from the day you left Egypt until you arrived here.