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Numbers 33:55

American Standard Version

But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall those that ye let remain of them be as pricks in your eyes, and as thorns in your sides, and they shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

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Numbers 33:55 in other translations

“But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be like pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will harass you in the land in which you dwell.

Numbers 33:55 · World English Bible

Numbers 33:55 in context

  1. 53and ye shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein; for unto you have I given the land to possess it.
  2. 54And ye shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer thou shalt give the less inheritance: wheresoever the lot falleth to any man, that shall be his; according to the tribes of your fathers shall ye inherit.
  3. 55But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall those that ye let remain of them be as pricks in your eyes, and as thorns in your sides, and they shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
  4. 56And it shall come to pass, that, as I thought to do unto them, so will I do unto you.