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54 And ye shall inherit the land by lots by your families, and to those with the most ye shall give more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give less inheritance, each one’s inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falls; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.

55 But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall come to pass that those whom ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides and shall afflict you in the land in which ye dwell.

56 Moreover it shall come to pass that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.

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54 Distribute the land by lot,(A) according to your clans.(B) To a larger group give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group a smaller one.(C) Whatever falls to them by lot will be theirs. Distribute it according to your ancestral tribes.(D)

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(E) 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.(F)’”

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