Numbers 33:53

53 so that you take over the land and make yourself at home in it; I've given it to you. It's yours.

Numbers 33:53 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 33:53

And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell
therein
Turn them out of their cities, towns, and houses, and inhabit them:

for I have given you the land to possess it;
who had a right to dispose of it, and a better title they needed not desire than the Lord could and did make them.

Numbers 33:53 In-Context

51 "Tell the People of Israel, When you cross the Jordan into the country of Canaan,
52 drive out the native population before you, destroy their carved idols, destroy their cast images, level their worship-mounds
53 so that you take over the land and make yourself at home in it; I've given it to you. It's yours.
54 "Divide up the land by lot according to the size of your clans: Large clans will get large tracts of land, small clans will get smaller tracts of land. However the lot falls, that's it. Divide it up according to your ancestral tribes.
55 "But if you don't drive out the native population, everyone you let stay there will become a cinder in your eye and a splinter in your foot. They'll give you endless trouble right in your own backyards.
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