Instructions for Conquering Canaan

⁵⁰ The Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying: ⁵¹ Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: When you are crossing over Jordan into the land of Canaan, ⁵² then you will drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their carved images, and destroy all their molded images, and destroy all their high places, ⁵³ and you will drive out the inhabitants of the land and dwell in it, because I have given you the land to inherit it. ⁵⁴ You will possess the land by lot for an inheritance among your families, and to the larger you will give the larger inheritance, and to the smaller you will give the smaller inheritance. Every man’s inheritance will be in the place where his lot falls. By the tribes of your fathers you will inherit.

⁵⁵ But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those whom you let remain will be like thorns in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will show hostility to you in the land in which you live. ⁵⁶ And what I had planned to do to them, I will do to you.