first instance concerns what the immigrants were to do after arriving in the land: When Yahweh your God brings you to the land which you are about to enter to take possession of it, driving out many nations before you—Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations greater and more powerful than you—and when Yahweh your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must utterly destroy them. You must make no covenant with them and show them
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