Numbers 33:50-56
Statutes of Possessing the Land
50Then Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho, saying, 51“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘aWhen you cross over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 52then you shall dispossess all the inhabitants of the land from before you and adestroy all their carved stones and destroy all their molten images and demolish all their high places; 53aand you shall take possession of the land and inhabit it, for I have given the land to you to possess it. 54‘aAnd you shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the larger you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give a smaller inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to anyone, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers. 55‘But if you do not dispossess the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it will be that those whom you let remain of them will become aas pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will trouble you in the land which you inhabit. 56‘And it will be as I plan to do to them, so I will do to you.’”