Deuteronomy 4:38
Good News Translation
As you advanced, he drove out nations greater and more powerful than you, so that he might bring you in and give you their land, the land which still belongs to you.

New Revised Standard Version
driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, giving you their land for a possession, as it is still today.

Contemporary English Version
Now you face other nations more powerful than you are, but the LORD has already started forcing them out of their land and giving it to you.

New American Bible
dispossessing before you nations greater and mightier than you, so as to bring you in and to give their land to you as a heritage, as it is today.

Douay-Rheims Bible
To destroy at thy coming very great nations, and stronger than thou art, and to bring thee in, and give thee their land for a possession, as thou seest at this present day.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

To destroy at thy coming very great nations, and stronger than thou art, and to bring thee in, and give thee their land for a possession, as thou seest at this present day.

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Deuteronomy 7:1 When the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, which thou art going in to possess, and shall have destroyed many nations before thee, the Hethite, and the Gergezite, and the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, seven nations much more numerous than thou art, and stronger than thou:

Deuteronomy 9:1-5 Hear, O Israel: Thou shalt go over the Jordan this day; to possess nations very great, and stronger than thyself, cities great, and walled up to the sky, . . .

Deuteronomy 11:23 The Lord will destroy all these nations before your face, and you shall possess them, which are greater and stronger than you.

Exodus 23:27,28 I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come: and will turn the backs of all thy enemies before thee: . . .

Joshua 3:10 And again he said: By this you shall know, that the Lord, the living God, is in the midst of you, and that he shall destroy, before your sight, the Chanaanite and the Hethite, the Hevite and the Pherezite, the Gergesite also, and the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite.

Psalm 44:2,3 We have heard, O God, with our ears: our fathers have declared to us, The work thou hast wrought in their days, and in the days of old. . . .

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Deuteronomy 2:31-37 And the Lord said to me: Behold I have begun to deliver unto thee Sehon and his land, begin to possess it. . . .

Deuteronomy 3:1-16 Then we turned and went by the way of Basan: and Og the king of Basan came out to meet us with his people to fight in Edrai. . . .

Deuteronomy 8:18 But remember the Lord thy God, that he hath given thee strength, that he might fulfil his covenant, concerning which he swore to thy fathers, as this present day sheweth.

Context
The LORD Alone is God
37Because he loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them. And he brought thee out of Egypt, going before thee with his great power, 38To destroy at thy coming very great nations, and stronger than thou art, and to bring thee in, and give thee their land for a possession, as thou seest at this present day.39Know therefore this day, and think in thy heart that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath, and there is no other.…
Cross References
Numbers 32:4
The land, which the Lord hath conquered in the sight of the children of Israel, is a very fertile soil for the feeding of beasts: and we thy servants have very much cattle:

Numbers 34:14
For the tribe of the children of Ruben by their families, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the number of their kindreds, and half of the tribe of Manasses,

Numbers 34:15
That is, two tribes and a half, have received their portion beyond the Jordan over against Jericho at the east side.

Deuteronomy 9:1
Hear, O Israel: Thou shalt go over the Jordan this day; to possess nations very great, and stronger than thyself, cities great, and walled up to the sky,

Deuteronomy 11:23
The Lord will destroy all these nations before your face, and you shall possess them, which are greater and stronger than you.

Deuteronomy 4:37
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