“When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;”
When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land whither you go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you; -- the enumeration of seven Canaanite peoples marks the conquest's scope. The nations are 'greater and mightier,' yet the LORD 'casts them out.' The specific list (Hittites through Jebusites) grounds the conquest in historical ethnography.
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