Numbers 33:50–56

Instructions for the Conquest of Canaan

⁵⁰Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho, saying, ⁵¹“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ^g‘When you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan, ^52hthen you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their engraved stones, destroy all their molded images, and demolish all their ⁵high places; ⁵³you shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land and dwell in it, for I have given you the land to ⁱpossess. ⁵⁴And ^jyou shall divide the land by lot as an inheritance among your families; to the larger you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give a smaller inheritance; there everyone’s inheritance shall be whatever falls to him by lot. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers. ⁵⁵But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall be that those whom you let remain shall be ^kirritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land where you dwell. ⁵⁶Moreover it shall be that I will do to you as I thought to do to them.’ ”