⁵² force out all the people who live there. Destroy all of their carved statues and metal idols. Wreck all of their ·places of worship [^Lhigh places; ^Cworship sites that became associated with pagan worship or inappopriate worship of Yahweh; 1 Kin. 3:2]. ⁵³ Take over the land and settle there, because I have given this land to you to own. ⁵⁴ Throw lots [^Cperhaps the Urim and Thummim; Ex. 28:30; Lev. 8:8] to ·divide up [apportion] the land by ·family groups [clans], giving larger portions to larger ·family groups [clans] and smaller portions to smaller ·family groups [clans]. The land will be given as the lots decide; each tribe will get its own land.