Genesis 15:7New American Bible - revised editionHe then said to him: I am the Lord who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land as a possession. See the chapter |
No, it is not because of your justice or the integrity of your heart that you are going in to take possession of their land; but it is because of their wickedness that the Lord, your God, is dispossessing these nations before you and in order to fulfill the promise he made on oath to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.