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Deuteronomy 12:29

27 Present the meat and blood of your burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD your God. The blood of your other sacrifices must be poured out beside the altar of the LORD your God, but you may eat the meat.

28 Be careful to obey all these things I command you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God.

When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land,

30 be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”

31 You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land,
KJV
When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
WEB
When the LORD your God cuts off the nations from before you where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,
ASV
When Jehovah thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest in to dispossess them, and thou dispossessest them, and dwellest in their land;
DARBY
When Jehovah thy God cutteth off from before thee the nations whither thou goest, to take possession of them, and thou hast dispossessed them, and dwellest in their land,
BLB
When YHWH your God cuts off the nations that you go to dispossess from before you, and you displace them and dwell in their land,
ÅB
Når Herren din Gud har utryddet folkene for deg der hvor du nå kommer for å drive dem bort, og du har drevet dem bort og bor i deres land,
OTB
Herren deres Gud vil fjerne de folkene dere er i ferd med å invadere og drive ut. Men når dere har drevet dem ut og bosatt dere i deres land,
B1930
Når Herren din Gud har utryddet folkene for dig der hvor du nu kommer for å drive dem bort, og du har drevet dem bort og bor i deres land,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Joshua 23:4

    See, I have allotted as an inheritance to your tribes these remaining nations, including all the nations I have already cut off, from the Jordan westward to the Great Sea.

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  • Deuteronomy 19:1

    When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land He is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their cities and houses,

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  • Deuteronomy 9:3

    But understand that today the LORD your God goes across ahead of you as a consuming fire; He will destroy them and subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them swiftly, as the LORD has promised you.

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  • Psalms 78:55

    He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

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  • Exodus 23:23

    For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will annihilate them.

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