16 But they will return here+ in the fourth generation, because the error of the Amʹor·ites has not yet reached its full measure.”+

25 Therefore, the land is unclean, and I will bring punishment on it for its error, and the land will vomit its inhabitants out.+

5 It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to take possession of their land. Instead, it is because of the wickedness of these nations that Jehovah your God is driving them away from before you+ and in order to carry out the word that Jehovah swore to your forefathers, Abraham,+ Isaac,+ and Jacob.+