Numbers 33:50–56

Statutes of Possessing the Land

⁵⁰Then Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho, saying,

⁵¹“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘^aWhen you cross over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

⁵²then you shall dispossess all the inhabitants of the land from before you and ^adestroy all their carved stones and destroy all their molten images and demolish all their high places;

^53aand you shall take possession of the land and inhabit it, for I have given the land to you to possess it.

⁵⁴‘^aAnd you shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the larger you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give a smaller inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to anyone, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.

⁵⁵‘But if you do not dispossess the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it will be that those whom you let remain of them will become ^aas pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will trouble you in the land which you inhabit.

⁵⁶‘And it will be as I plan to do to them, so I will do to you.’”