^20:7Our God, you drove out¹² the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and gave it as a permanent possession¹³ to the descendants of your friend¹⁴ Abraham.

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Footnotes

12 Heb “did you not drive out?” This is another rhetorical question which expects a positive response; see the note on the word “heaven” in the previous verse.
13 Heb “permanently.”
14 Or perhaps “your covenantal partner.” See Isa 41:8.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Did you not, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Are you not our God who drove out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and who gave it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?

NLTNew Living Translation

O our God, did you not drive out those who lived in this land when your people Israel arrived? And did you not give this land forever to the descendants of your friend Abraham?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

O, our God, did you yourself not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it to the descendants of Abraham your friend forever?

KJV 1900King James Version

Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?

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