<p class="bodytext">When<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> brings you to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey,<n id="2" /> then you will keep<n id="3" /> this ceremony<n id="4" /> in this month.

<t /><p class="bodytext">When the <sc>Lordsc> your God brings you to the land that you are going to occupy and forces out many nations before you &#8211; Hittites,<n id="1" /> Girgashites,<n id="2" /> Amorites,<n id="3" /> Canaanites,<n id="4" /> Perizzites,<n id="5" /> Hivites,<n id="6" /> and Jebusites,<n id="7" /> seven<n id="8" /> nations more numerous and powerful than you &#8211;

Joshua continued,<n id="1" /> &#8220;This is how you will know the living God is among you and that he will truly drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.

<t /><p class="bodytext">When the news reached all the kings on the west side of the Jordan<n id="1" /> &#8211; in the hill country, the lowlands,<n id="2" /> and all along the Mediterranean coast<n id="3" /> as far as<n id="4" /> Lebanon (including the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites) &#8211;

You crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho.<n id="1" /> The leaders<n id="2" /> of Jericho, as well as the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, fought with you, but I handed them over to you.