Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
If thou shall say in thy heart, These nations are more than I. How can I dispossess them?
New American Standard Bible
“If you should say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I
King James Version
If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
Holman Bible
“If you say to yourself, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I drive them out?’
International Standard Version
"You may say to yourselves, "These nations are more numerous than we are. How can we dispossess them?'
American Standard Version
If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
Amplified
“If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I am; how can I dispossess them?’
Bible in Basic English
If you say in your hearts, These nations are greater in number than we are: how are we to take their land from them?
Darby Translation
If thou shouldest say in thy heart, These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?
Julia Smith Translation
When thou shalt say in thy heart, The nations many more than I, how shall I be able to dispossess them?
King James 2000
If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
Lexham Expanded Bible
"If you think in your heart, 'These nations [are] more numerous than I, so how can I dispossess them?'
Modern King James verseion
If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I throw them out?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If thou shalt say in thine heart, 'These nations are more than I, how can I cast them out?'
NET Bible
If you think, "These nations are more numerous than I -- how can I dispossess them?"
New Heart English Bible
If you shall say in your heart, "These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?"
The Emphasized Bible
Although thou mightest say in thy heart: More in number, are these nations than I, - how can, I dispossess them?
Webster
If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations are more than I, how can I dispossess them?
World English Bible
If you shall say in your heart, "These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?"
Youngs Literal Translation
When thou sayest in thine heart, These nations are more numerous than I, how am I able to dispossess them? --
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 7:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Detailed Stipulations
16 And thou shall consume all the peoples that LORD thy God shall deliver to thee. Thine eye shall not pity them. Neither shall thou serve their gods, for that will be a snare to thee. 17 If thou shall say in thy heart, These nations are more than I. How can I dispossess them? 18 Thou shall not be afraid of them. Thou shall remember well what LORD thy God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt:
Phrases
Cross References
Numbers 33:53
And ye shall take possession of the land, and dwell in it, for to you I have given the land to possess it.
Numbers 13:32
And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the sons of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up the inhabitants of it. And all the people that we saw
Deuteronomy 8:17
And [lest] thou say in thy heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.
Deuteronomy 15:9
Beware that there not be a base thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand, and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou give him nothing, and he cry to LORD against thee, and it be
Deuteronomy 18:21
And if thou say in thy heart, How shall we know the word which LORD has not spoken?
Joshua 17:16-18
And the sons of Joseph said, The hill-country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth-shean and its towns, and those who are in the valley o
Isaiah 14:13
And thou said in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the outermost parts of the north.
Isaiah 47:8
Now therefore hear this, thou who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in thy heart, I am, and there is none else besides me. I shall not sit as a widow, nor shall I know the loss of sons.
Isaiah 49:21
Then thou shall say in thy heart, Who has begotten these for me, seeing I have been bereaved of my sons, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering to and fro? And who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone, these, where were
Jeremiah 13:22
And if thou say in thy heart, Why have these things come upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity thy skirts are uncovered, and thy heels suffer violence.
Luke 9:47
But having perceived the thought of their heart, having taken a child, Jesus stood it beside him,