²⁸ I will send the hornet^(A) ahead of you to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites^(B) out of your way. ²⁹ But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals^(C) too numerous for you. ³⁰ Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have increased enough to take possession^(D) of the land.

⁵² drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images and their cast idols, and demolish all their high places.^{(A) 53} Take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.^(B)