Genesis 15:7New English TranslationThe Lord said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.” See the chapter |
It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness, that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.