⁵⁰ On the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho^(A) the Lord said to Moses, ⁵¹ “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you cross the Jordan into Canaan,^{(B) 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.^{(C) 53} Take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.^{(D) 54} Distribute the land by lot,^(E) according to your clans.^(F) To a larger group give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group a smaller one.^(G) Whatever falls to them by lot will be theirs. Distribute it according to your ancestral tribes.^(H)

⁵⁵ “‘But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns^(I) in your sides. They will give you trouble in the land where you will live. ⁵⁶ And then I will do to you what I plan to do to them.^(J)’”

² and when the Lord your God has delivered^(A) them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy^(B) them totally.^[a](C) Make no treaty^(D) with them, and show them no mercy.^(E)

¹⁶ However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.^(A)