Numbers 33:53

33:53 You must dispossess the inhabitants of the land and live in it, for I have given you the land to possess it.

Numbers 14:12

14:12 I will strike them with the pestilence, ¹  and I will disinherit them; I will make you into a nation that is greater and mightier than they!”

Numbers 21:32

21:32 Moses sent spies to reconnoiter ²  Jaazer, and they captured its villages ³  and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.

Numbers 32:39

32:39 The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.

Numbers 36:8

36:8 And every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any of the tribes of the Israelites must become the wife of a man from any family in her father’s tribe, so that every Israelite ⁴  may retain the inheritance of his fathers.

Numbers 13:30

13:30 Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses, saying, “Let us go up ⁵  and occupy it, ⁶  for we are well able to conquer it.” ⁷ 

Numbers 14:24

14:24 Only my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit and has followed me fully – I will bring him into the land where he had gone, and his descendants ⁸  will possess it.

Numbers 21:24

21:24 But the Israelites ⁹  defeated him in battle ¹⁰  and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the Ammonites, for the border of the Ammonites was strongly defended.

Numbers 21:35

21:35 So they defeated Og, ¹¹  his sons, and all his people, until there were no survivors, ¹²  and they possessed his land.

Numbers 32:21

32:21 and if all your armed men cross the Jordan before the Lord until he drives out his enemies from his presence

Numbers 27:11

27:11 and if his father has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his relative nearest to him from his family, and he will possess it. This will be for the Israelites a legal requirement, ¹³  as the Lord commanded Moses.’”

Numbers 33:52

33:52 you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, ¹⁴  and demolish their high places.

Numbers 33:55

33:55 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, then those whom you allow to remain will be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your side, and will cause you trouble in the land where you will be living.

[14:12]  ¹ tc The Greek version has “death.”

[21:32]  ¹ tn Heb “Moses sent to spy out.”

[21:32]  ² tn Heb “daughters.”

[36:8]  ¹ tn The subject is “Israelites” and the verb is plural to agree with it, but the idea is collective as the word for “man” indicates: “so that the Israelites may possess – [each] man the inheritance of his fathers.”

[13:30]  ¹ tn The construction is emphatic, using the cohortative with the infinitive absolute to strengthen it: עָלֹה נַעֲלֶה (’aloh na’aleh, “let us go up”) with the sense of certainty and immediacy.

[13:30]  ² tn The perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive brings the cohortative idea forward: “and let us possess it”; it may also be subordinated to form a purpose or result idea.

[13:30]  ³ tn Here again the confidence of Caleb is expressed with the infinitive absolute and the imperfect tense: יָכוֹל נוּכַל (yakhol nukhal), “we are fully able” to do this. The verb יָכַל (yakhal) followed by the preposition lamed means “to prevail over, to conquer.”

[14:24]  ¹ tn Heb “seed.”

[21:24]  ¹ tn The Hebrew text has “Israel,” but the verb is plural.

[21:24]  ² tn Heb “with the edge of the sword.”

[21:35]  ¹ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Og) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[21:35]  ² tn Heb “no remnant.”

[27:11]  ¹ tn The expression is חֻקַּת מִשְׁפָּט (khuqqat mishpat, “a statute of judgment”), which means it is a fixed enactment that determines justice. It is one which is established by God.

[33:52]  ¹ tn The Hebrew text repeats the verb “you will destroy.”