The Lord told Joshua, “Don’t be afraid of them, for I am handing them over to you. Not one of them can resist you.”

So I responded to you, “Do not be terrified of them!

These are the ones you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,

“They are dismayed and cannot answer any more; they have nothing left to say.

The water covered their enemies; not even one of them survived.

Thorns and snares are in the path of the perverse, but the one who guards himself keeps far from them.

And I will choose some of them as priests and Levites,” says the Lord.

According to their uncleanness and rebellion I have dealt with them, and I hid my face from them.

All these had taken foreign wives, and some of them also had children by these women.

I constructed pools of water for myself, to irrigate my grove of flourishing trees.

Out of those places you will hear songs of thanksgiving and the sounds of laughter and merriment. I will increase their number and they will not dwindle away. I will bring them honor and they will no longer be despised.

I will turn my face away from them and they will desecrate my treasured place. Vandals will enter it and desecrate it.

Although they bring their flocks and herds to seek the favor of the Lord, They will not find him – he has withdrawn himself from them!

The land will be abandoned by them in order that it may make up for its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them, and they will make up for their iniquity because they have rejected my regulations and have abhorred my statutes.

Moses was very angry, and he said to the Lord, “Have no respect for their offering! I have not taken so much as one donkey from them, nor have I harmed any one of them!”

These you may eat from them: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, the grasshopper of any kind.

As for any clay vessel they fall into, everything in it will become unclean and you must break it.

But the garment or the warp or the woof or any article of leather which you wash and infection disappears from it is to be washed a second time and it will be clean.”

“‘As for your male and female slaves who may belong to you – you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you.

Also you may buy slaves from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are with you, whom they have fathered in your land, they may become your property.