⁵¹ “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you cross the Jordan into Canaan,^{(A) 52} drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images and their cast idols, and demolish all their high places.^{(B) 53} Take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.^{(C) 54} Distribute the land by lot,^(D) according to your clans.^(E) To a larger group give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group a smaller one.^(F) Whatever falls to them by lot will be theirs. Distribute it according to your ancestral tribes.^(G)

⁵⁵ “‘But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns^(H) in your sides. They will give you trouble in the land where you will live. ⁵⁶ And then I will do to you what I plan to do to them.^(I)’”

Warning to Escape Babylon’s Judgment

⁴ Then I heard another voice from heaven say: