Some Nations Remain in the Land

3 These are the nations that Yahweh left, to test Israel by them (that is, to test all those who had not experienced^[a] any of the wars of Canaan, ² in order that the generations of Israel would know war, to teach those who had not experienced it^[b] before): ³ the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites,^[c] the Sidonians,^[d] and the Hivites^[e] living on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon up to Lebo-Hamath. ⁴ They were left for testing Israel, to know whether they would keep the commands of Yahweh that he commanded their ancestors^[f] through the hand of Moses. ⁵ And the Israelites^[g] lived in the midst of the Canaanites,^[h] the Hittites,^[i] the Amorites,^[j] the Perizzites,^[k] the Hivites,^[l] and the Jebusites.^{[m] 6} And they took their daughters as wives for themselves, and they gave their daughters to their sons, and they served their gods.^[n]