Numbers 15:18

15:18 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land to which I am bringing you ¹ 

Leviticus 14:34

14:34 “When you enter the land of Canaan which I am about to give ²  to you for a possession, and I put ³  a diseased infection in a house in the land you are to possess, ⁴ 

Leviticus 23:10

23:10 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land that I am about to give to you and you gather in its harvest, ⁵  then you must bring the sheaf of the first portion of your harvest ⁶  to the priest,

Leviticus 25:2

25:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land must observe a Sabbath ⁷  to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 7:1-2

The Dispossession of Nonvassals

7:1 When the Lord your God brings you to the land that you are going to occupy and forces out many nations before you – Hittites, ⁸  Girgashites, ⁹  Amorites, ¹⁰  Canaanites, ¹¹  Perizzites, ¹²  Hivites, ¹³  and Jebusites, ¹⁴  seven ¹⁵  nations more numerous and powerful than you – 7:2 and he ¹⁶  delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate ¹⁷  them. Make no treaty ¹⁸  with them and show them no mercy!

Deuteronomy 12:1

The Central Sanctuary

12:1 These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to obey as long as you live in the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, ¹⁹  has given you to possess. ²⁰ 

Deuteronomy 12:9

12:9 for you have not yet come to the final stop ²¹  and inheritance the Lord your God is giving you.

¹ tn The relative clause is literally, “which I am causing you to enter there.” The final adverb is resumptive, and must be joined with the relative pronoun.

² tn Heb “which I am giving” (so NAB, NIV).

³ tn Heb “give.”

⁴ tn Heb “in the house of the land of your possession” (KJV and ASV both similar).

⁵ tn Heb “and you harvest its harvest.”

⁶ tn Heb “the sheaf of the first of your harvest.”

⁷ tn Heb “the land shall rest a Sabbath.”

⁸ sn Hittites. The center of Hittite power was in Anatolia (central modern Turkey). In the Late Bronze Age (1550-1200 b.c.) they were at their zenith, establishing outposts and colonies near and far. Some elements were obviously in Canaan at the time of the Conquest (1400-1350 b.c.).

⁹ sn Girgashites. These cannot be ethnically identified and are unknown outside the OT. They usually appear in such lists only when the intention is to have seven groups in all (see also the note on the word “seven” later in this verse).

¹⁰ sn Amorites. Originally from the upper Euphrates region (Amurru), the Amorites appear to have migrated into Canaan beginning in 2200 b.c. or thereabouts.

¹¹ sn Canaanites. These were the indigenous peoples of the land, going back to the beginning of recorded history (ca. 3000 b.c.). The OT identifies them as descendants of Ham (Gen 10:6), the only Hamites to have settled north and east of Egypt.

¹² sn Perizzites. This is probably a subgroup of Canaanites (Gen 13:7; 34:30).

¹³ sn Hivites. These are usually thought to be the same as the Hurrians, a people well-known in ancient Near Eastern texts. They are likely identical to the Horites (see note on the term “Horites” in Deut 2:12).

¹⁴ sn Jebusites. These inhabited the hill country, particularly in and about Jerusalem (cf. Num 13:29; Josh 15:8; 2 Sam 5:6; 24:16).

¹⁵ sn Seven. This is an ideal number in the OT, one symbolizing fullness or completeness. Therefore, the intent of the text here is not to be precise and list all of Israel’s enemies but simply to state that Israel will have a full complement of foes to deal with. For other lists of Canaanites, some with fewer than seven peoples, see Exod 3:8; 13:5; 23:23, 28; 33:2; 34:11; Deut 20:17; Josh 3:10; 9:1; 24:11. Moreover, the “Table of Nations” (Gen 10:15-19) suggests that all of these (possibly excepting the Perizzites) were offspring of Canaan and therefore Canaanites.

¹⁶ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

¹⁷ tn In the Hebrew text the infinitive absolute before the finite verb emphasizes the statement. The imperfect has an obligatory nuance here. Cf. ASV “shalt (must NRSV) utterly destroy them”; CEV “must destroy them without mercy.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “covenant” (so NASB, NRSV); TEV “alliance.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “fathers.”

²⁰ tn Heb “you must be careful to obey in the land the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days which you live in the land.” This adverbial statement modifies “to obey,” not “to possess,” so the order in the translation has been rearranged to make this clear.

²¹ tn Heb “rest.”