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But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall come about that those whom you let remain of them will become ^(ah)as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will trouble you in the land in which you live.

And there will be no more for the house of Israel a ^(aj)prickling brier or a painful thorn from any round about them who scorned them; then they will know that I am the Lord God ."