52. You must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. You must destroy all their idols and cast images, and demolish their high places.
53. You will take possession of the land, so you will settle in it, because I have given it to you to possess.
54. “You are to divide the land by lot according to your families. To the large, make their inheritance larger, and to the small, make their inheritance smaller. Whatever comes out of the lot will be theirs. You are to distribute the inheritance according to your ancestral tribes.
55. “But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, whoever you allow to remain will become to you barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will give you trouble in the land in which you will be living.
56. Then what I had intended to do to them, I will do to you.”