Numbers 33:50-56

The Voice

Eternal One: ⁵¹ Tell this new generation of Israelites that as soon as they cross the Jordan into Canaan, ⁵² they must make its inhabitants flee. They must obliterate any carved or molded images of other gods and goddesses and the high places where they’re worshiped. ⁵³ Tell them they must take that land. I promised it to them and have determined they should live in it as their own. ⁵⁴ Divide it up among the people by clan, and make decisions about who gets what partly based on the size of the groups. But once you’ve made that rough distinction, draw lots for the specific territories. Whatever you draw, that’s how the land shall be allotted. Each of the tribes from Jacob’s extended families shall have their own land. ⁵⁵ If they do not fully conquer and take the land from its native inhabitants, those remaining people will be a constant irritation, causing trouble and annoyance like thorns in their eyes and barbs in their sides ⁵⁶ because if they don’t fully dispossess the present occupants, I will do to the Israelites what I would have done to the Canaanites.