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9 “But as my people watched, I destroyed the Amorites, though they were as tall as cedars and as strong as oaks. I destroyed the fruit on their branches and dug out their roots.
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“Yet I destroyed the Amorites before them, though they were tall as the cedars and strong as the oaks. I destroyed their fruit above and their roots below.
10 It was I who rescued you from Egypt and led you through the desert for forty years, so you could possess the land of the Amorites.
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I brought you up out of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness to give you the land of the Amorites.
11 I chose some of your sons to be prophets and others to be Nazirites. Can you deny this, my people of Israel?” asks the LORD .
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“I also raised up prophets from among your children and Nazirites from among your youths. Is this not true, people of Israel?” declares the LORD.
12 “But you caused the Nazirites to sin by making them drink wine, and you commanded the prophets, ‘Shut up!’
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“But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.
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