⁵ The Israelites lived^(A) among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites,^(B) Hivites and Jebusites.^{(C) 6} They took their daughters^(D) in marriage and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.^(E)

³³ Do not be misled:^(A) “Bad company corrupts good character.”^[a](B)

⁶ Your boasting is not good.^(A) Don’t you know that a little yeast^(B) leavens the whole batch of dough?^(C)

The Day of the Lord

² and you shall not make a covenant with the people of this land,^(A) but you shall break down their altars.^(B)’ Yet you have disobeyed^(C) me. Why have you done this? ³ And I have also said, ‘I will not drive them out before you;^(D) they will become traps^(E) for you, and their gods will become snares^(F) to you.’”

²⁷ But Manasseh did not^(A) drive out the people of Beth Shan or Taanach or Dor^(B) or Ibleam^(C) or Megiddo^(D) and their surrounding settlements, for the Canaanites^(E) were determined to live in that land. ²⁸ When Israel became strong, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor but never drove them out completely.^{(F) 29} Nor did Ephraim^(G) drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer,^(H) but the Canaanites continued to live there among them.^{(I) 30} Neither did Zebulun drive out the Canaanites living in Kitron or Nahalol, so these Canaanites lived among them, but Zebulun did subject them to forced labor. ³¹ Nor did Asher^(J) drive out those living in Akko or Sidon^(K) or Ahlab or Akzib^(L) or Helbah or Aphek^(M) or Rehob.^{(N) 32} The Asherites lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land because they did not drive them out. ³³ Neither did Naphtali drive out those living in Beth Shemesh^(O) or Beth Anath^(P); but the Naphtalites too lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, and those living in Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath became forced laborers for them. ³⁴ The Amorites^(Q) confined the Danites^(R) to the hill country, not allowing them to come down into the plain.^{(S) 35} And the Amorites were determined also to hold out in Mount Heres,^(T) Aijalon^(U) and Shaalbim,^(V) but when the power of the tribes of Joseph increased, they too were pressed into forced labor. ³⁶ The boundary of the Amorites was from Scorpion Pass^(W) to Sela^(X) and beyond.^(Y)

⁶³ Judah could not^(A) dislodge the Jebusites^(B), who were living in Jerusalem;^(C) to this day the Jebusites live there with the people of Judah.^(D)