¹¹ “Observe what I command you this day. Behold, ^(A)I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. ^12 (B)Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a ^(C)snare in your midst.

A Chosen People

7 “When the ^(A)Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, ^(B)the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations ^(C)more numerous and mightier than you,

¹⁷ but ^(A)you shall devote them to complete destruction,^[a] the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded, ¹⁸ that ^(B)they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices that they have done for their gods, and so you ^(C)sin against the Lord your God.

^17 (A)The God of this people Israel ^(B)chose our fathers and ^(C)made the people great ^(D)during their stay in the land of Egypt, and ^(E)with uplifted arm he led them out of it. ¹⁸ And for about ^(F)forty years ^(G)he put up with^[a] them in the wilderness. ¹⁹ And ^(H)after destroying ^(I)seven nations in the land of Canaan, ^(J)he gave them their land as an inheritance.