Deuteronomy 9:1-2

New English Translation

Theological Justification of the Conquest

9 Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan so you can dispossess the nations there, people greater and stronger than you who live in large cities with extremely high fortifications.^{[a] 2} They include the Anakites,^[b] a numerous^[c] and tall people whom you know about and of whom it is said, “Who is able to resist the Anakites?”