Deuteronomy 12:29
Good News Translation
"The LORD your God will destroy the nations as you invade their land, and you will occupy it and settle there.

New Revised Standard Version
When the LORD your God has cut off before you the nations whom you are about to enter to dispossess them, when you have dispossessed them and live in their land,

Contemporary English Version
Israel, as you go into the land and attack the nations that are there, the LORD will get rid of them, and you can have their land.

New American Bible
When the LORD, your God, cuts down from before you the nations you are going in to dispossess, and you have dispossessed them and are settled in their land,

Douay-Rheims Bible
When the Lord thy God shall have destroyed before thy face the nations, which thou shalt go in to possess, and when thou shalt possess them, and dwell in their land:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

When the Lord thy God shall have destroyed before thy face the nations, which thou shalt go in to possess, and when thou shalt possess them, and dwell in their land:

cut off

Deuteronomy 9:3 Thou shalt know therefore this day that the Lord thy God himself will pass over before thee, a devouring and consuming fire, to destroy and extirpate and bring them to nothing before thy face quickly, as he hath spoken to thee.

Deuteronomy 19:1 When the Lord thy God hath destroyed the nations, whose land he will deliver to thee, and thou shalt possess it, and shalt dwell in the cities and houses thereof:

Exodus 23:23 And my angel shall go before thee, and shall bring thee in unto the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherexite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hevite, and the Jebuzite, whom I will destroy.

Joshua 23:4 And now since he hath divided to you by lot all the land, from the east of the Jordan unto the great sea, ant many nations yet remain:

Psalm 78:55 And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.

succeedest [heb] inherited.

Context
A Warning Against Idolatry
29When the Lord thy God shall have destroyed before thy face the nations, which thou shalt go in to possess, and when thou shalt possess them, and dwell in their land:30Beware lest thou imitate them, after they are destroyed at thy coming in, and lest thou seek after their ceremonies, saying: As these nations have worshipped their gods, so will I also worship.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:30
Beware lest thou imitate them, after they are destroyed at thy coming in, and lest thou seek after their ceremonies, saying: As these nations have worshipped their gods, so will I also worship.

Joshua 23:4
And now since he hath divided to you by lot all the land, from the east of the Jordan unto the great sea, ant many nations yet remain:

Deuteronomy 12:28
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