49 They camped by the Jordan, from Beth Jesimoth as far as the aAbel Acacia Grove in the plains of Moab.
Instructions for the Conquest of Canaan
50 Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, acrossfrom Jericho, saying,
51 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: a‘When you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
52athen you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their engraved stones, destroy all their molded images, and demolish all their1 high places;
53 you shall dispossess theinhabitantsof the land and dwell in it, for I have given you the land to apossess.
54 And ayou shall divide the land by lot as an inheritance among your families; to the larger you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give a smaller inheritance; there everyone’s inheritance shall be whatever falls to him by lot. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.
55 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall be that those whom you let remain shallbeairritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land where you dwell.
The expulsion of the Canaanites and the destruction of their monuments of idolatry had been already enjoined (see the marginal references); and Numbers 33:54 is substantially a repetition from Exodus 26:53-55. But the solemn warning of Numbers 33:55-56 is new. A call for it had been furnished by their past transgressions in the matter of Baal-peor, and by their imperfect fulfillment, at the first, of Moses' orders in the Midianite war.
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