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Amos 2:10

Good News Translation

I brought you out of Egypt, led you through the desert for forty years, and gave you the land of the Amorites to be your own.

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Through forty years in the desert you provided all that they needed; their clothing never wore out, and their feet were not swollen with pain.

For forty years I was disgusted with those people. I said, ‘How disloyal they are! They refuse to obey my commands.’

On that day the Lord brought the Israelite tribes out of Egypt.

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

and so I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians and to bring them out of Egypt to a spacious land, one which is rich and fertile and in which the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites now live.

They did not care about me, even though I rescued them from Egypt and led them through the wilderness: a land of deserts and sand pits, a dry and dangerous land where no one lives and no one will even travel.

“And so I led them out of Egypt into the desert.

People of Israel, listen to this message which the Lord has spoken about you, the entire nation that he brought out of Egypt:

The Lord says, “People of Israel, I think as much of the people of Ethiopia as I do of you. I brought the Philistines from Crete and the Syrians from Kir, just as I brought you from Egypt.

I brought you out of Egypt; I rescued you from slavery; I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to lead you.

So they spread a false report among the Israelites about the land they had explored. They said, “That land doesn't even produce enough to feed the people who live there. Everyone we saw was very tall,

So the people of Israel captured all the Amorite cities, including Heshbon and all the surrounding towns, and settled in them.

The Lord became angry with the people and made them wander in the wilderness forty years until that whole generation that had displeased him was dead.

and for forty years he endured them in the desert.

So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the stars of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘People of Israel! It was not to me that you slaughtered and sacrificed animals for forty years in the desert.

“Then the Lord said to all of us, ‘Your children, who are still too young to know right from wrong, will enter the land—the children you said would be seized by your enemies. I will give the land to them, and they will occupy it.

“Remember how the Lord your God has blessed you in everything that you have done. He has taken care of you as you wandered through this vast desert. He has been with you these forty years, and you have had everything you needed.

There is still all the Canaanite country, and Mearah (which belonged to the Sidonians), as far as Aphek, at the Amorite border;

Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites, who lived on the east side of the Jordan. They fought you, but I gave you victory over them. You took their land, and I destroyed them as you advanced.




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