The land and its warning

50And Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

51Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,’

52and you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and you shall destroy all their figured stones, and all their cast-metal images you shall destroy, and all their high places you shall demolish.

53You shall take possession of the land and live in it, because I have given the land to you to possess it.

54You shall apportion the land by lot according to your clans. To the larger group you shall increase its inheritance, and to the smaller you shall reduce its inheritance. Wherever the lot falls for anyone, that shall be his. You shall receive your inheritances according to the tribes of your fathers.

55But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those whom you let remain from among them will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they will harass you on the land where you are living.

56then it will happen that what I intended to do to them, I will do to you.