² I will send an angel^(A) before you and drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.^(B)

¹¹ “‘Then you crossed the Jordan^(A) and came to Jericho.^(B) The citizens of Jericho fought against you, as did also the Amorites, Perizzites,^(C) Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites and Jebusites,^(D) but I gave them into your hands.^(E)

³⁴ Now go, lead^(A) the people to the place^(B) I spoke of, and my angel^(C) will go before you. However, when the time comes for me to punish,^(D) I will punish them for their sin.”

²⁷ “I will send my terror^(A) ahead of you and throw into confusion^(B) every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run.^{(C) 28} I will send the hornet^(D) ahead of you to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites^(E) out of your way. ²⁹ But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals^(F) too numerous for you. ³⁰ Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have increased enough to take possession^(G) of the land.

³¹ “I will establish your borders from the Red Sea^[a] to the Mediterranean Sea,^[b] and from the desert to the Euphrates River.^(H) I will give into your hands the people who live in the land, and you will drive them out^(I) before you.

God’s Angel to Prepare the Way

²⁰ “See, I am sending an angel^(A) ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.^(B)

⁸ So I have come down^(A) to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land,^(B) a land flowing with milk and honey^(C)—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites^(D) and Jebusites.^(E)

²² The Lord your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little.^(A) You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you.

¹¹ Obey what I command^(A) you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.^(B)

¹⁷ And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt^(A) into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’^(B)