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 \v 22 You gave them kingdoms and nations of people. They took possession of even the most distant places in this land. They occupied the land over which King Sihon ruled from Heshbon and the land over which King Og ruled in the Bashan.
 
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-\v 23 You helped our ancestors become as numerous as the stars in the sky, and you brought them into this land, the land you told their fathers to enter and take for themselves so they might live there.
+\v 23 You caused our ancestors' children to become as numerous as the stars in the heavens, and you brought them into this land, the land you told their fathers to enter and take for themselves so they might live there.
 \v 24 The people of Israel went in and took the land from the people who lived there. You enabled the Israelites to control the Canaanites and their kings so they could do to those people whatever they needed to do.
 
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