⁵³ Take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.^{(A) 54} Distribute the land by lot,^(B) according to your clans.^(C) To a larger group give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group a smaller one.^(D) Whatever falls to them by lot will be theirs. Distribute it according to your ancestral tribes.^(E)

⁵⁵ “‘But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns^(F) in your sides. They will give you trouble in the land where you will live.