16 But in the fourth generation they will return here,+ because the error of the Amʹor·ites has not yet come to completion.”+

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

5 It is not for your righteousness+ or for the uprightness of your heart+ that you are going in to take possession of their land; in fact, it is for 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.+