Understand: Deuteronomy 9:3-4; Ezekiel 20:44
giveth thee: Moses repeats this a third time, that, if it were possible, he might root out of the Israelites the opinion of their own deserts, before God rooted out the Canaanites from their country.
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Deuteronomy 9:6
Deuteronomy 9:6
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