Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; ignore the stubbornness, wickedness, and sin of these people.

Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to him, &#8220;This is the land I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, &#8216;I will give it to your descendants.&#8217;<n id="1" /> I have let you see it,<n id="2" /> but you will not cross over there.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Joseph said to his brothers, &#8220;I am about to die. But God will surely come to you<n id="1" /> and lead you up from this land to the land he swore on oath to give<n id="2" /> to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.&#8221;

I will bring you to the land I swore to give<n id="1" /> to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob &#8211; and I will give it to you<n id="2" /> as a possession. I am the <sc>Lord!&#8217;sc>&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Go up<n id="1" /> from here, you and the people whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land I promised on oath<n id="2" /> to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, &#8216;I will give it to your descendants.&#8217;<n id="3" />

&#8216;Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly,<n id="1" /> not<n id="2" /> one of the men twenty years old and upward<n id="3" /> who came from Egypt will see the land that I swore to give<n id="4" /> to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,

Look! I have already given the land to you.<n id="1" /> Go, occupy the territory that I,<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, promised<n id="3" /> to give to your ancestors<n id="4" /> Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants.&#8221;<n id="5" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then when the <sc>Lordsc> your God brings you to the land he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you &#8211; a land with large, fine cities you did not build,

It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness,<n id="1" /> that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the <sc>Lordsc> your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he<n id="2" /> made on oath to your ancestors,<n id="3" /> to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Today he will affirm that you are his people and that he is your God,<n id="1" /> just as he promised you and as he swore by oath to your ancestors<n id="2" /> Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

I also call on you<n id="1" /> to love the <sc>Lordsc> your God, to obey him and be loyal to him, for he gives you life and enables you to live continually<n id="2" /> in the land the <sc>Lordsc> promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.&#8221;p>