³⁷ Because he loved^(A) your ancestors and chose their descendants after them, he brought you out of Egypt by his Presence and his great strength,^{(B) 38} to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you into their land to give it to you for your inheritance,^(C) as it is today.

⁴ After the Lord your God has driven them out before you, do not say to yourself,^(A) “The Lord has brought me here to take possession of this land because of my righteousness.” No, it is on account of the wickedness^(B) of these nations^(C) that the Lord is going to drive them out before you.

²⁸ But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large.^(A) We even saw descendants of Anak^(B) there.^{(C) 29} The Amalekites^(D) live in the Negev; the Hittites,^(E) Jebusites^(F) and Amorites^(G) live in the hill country;^(H) and the Canaanites^(I) live near the sea and along the Jordan.^(J)”

³⁰ Then Caleb^(K) silenced the people before Moses and said, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.”

³¹ But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.”^(L)