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Amos 2:10

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I had rescued you from Egypt, and for forty years I had led you through the desert. Then I gave you the land of the Amorites.

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You took good care of them, and for forty years they never lacked a thing. Their shoes didn't wear out, and their feet were never swollen.

Then God got tired of them and said, “You never show good sense, and you don't understand what I want you to do.”

And on that same day the LORD brought Israel's families and tribes out of Egypt.

I am the LORD your God, the one who brought you out of Egypt where you were slaves.

and I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians. I will bring my people out of Egypt into a country where there is good land, rich with milk and honey. I will give them the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.

Your ancestors refused to ask for my help, though I had rescued them from Egypt and led them through a treacherous, barren desert, where no one lives or dares to travel.

So I brought them out and led them into the desert.

People of Israel, I rescued you from Egypt. Now listen to my judgment against you.

Israel, I am the LORD God, and the Ethiopians are no less important to me than you are. I brought you out of Egypt, but I also brought the Philistines from Crete and the Arameans from Kir.

I rescued you from Egypt, where you were slaves. I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to be your leaders.

Then they started spreading rumours and saying, “We won't be able to grow anything in that soil. And the people are like giants.

The Israelites settled in the Amorite towns, including the capital city of Heshbon with its surrounding villages.

but he was so angry with the others that he forced them to wander around in the desert forty years. By that time everyone who had sinned against him had died.

and for about forty years he took care of them in the desert.

God turned his back on his people and left them. Then they worshipped the stars in the sky, just as it says in the Book of the Prophets, “People of Israel, you didn't offer sacrifices and offerings to me during those forty years in the desert.

Then the LORD spoke to you again: People of Israel, you said that your innocent young children would be taken prisoner in the battle for the land. But some day I will let them go into the land, and with my help they will conquer it and live there.

The LORD has helped us and taken care of us during the past forty years that we have been in this huge desert. We've had everything we needed, and the LORD has blessed us and made us successful in whatever we have done.

then I brought you into the land east of the River Jordan. The Amorites were living there, and they fought you. But with my help, you defeated them, wiped them out, and took their land.




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