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Exodus 23:30-32
New English Translation
Exodus 23:30-32
New English Translation
30 Little by little[a] I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land. 31 I will set[b] your boundaries from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the River,[c] for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.
32 “You must make no covenant with them or with their gods.
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- Exodus 23:30 tn The repetition expresses an exceptional or super-fine quality (see GKC 396 §123.e).
- Exodus 23:31 tn The form is a perfect tense with vav consecutive.
- Exodus 23:31 tn In the Hebrew Bible “the River” usually refers to the Euphrates (cf. NASB, NCV, NRSV, TEV, CEV, NLT). There is some thought that it refers to a river Nahr el Kebir between Lebanon and Syria. See further W. C. Kaiser, Jr., “Exodus,” EBC 2:447; and G. W. Buchanan, The Consequences of the Covenant (NovTSup), 91-100.
Exodus 23:30-32
New International Version
Exodus 23:30-32
New International Version
30 Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have increased enough to take possession(A) of the land.
31 “I will establish your borders from the Red Sea[a] to the Mediterranean Sea,[b] and from the desert to the Euphrates River.(B) I will give into your hands the people who live in the land, and you will drive them out(C) before you. 32 Do not make a covenant(D) with them or with their gods.
Footnotes
- Exodus 23:31 Or the Sea of Reeds
- Exodus 23:31 Hebrew to the Sea of the Philistines
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