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# you must get rid of all the Canaanites there
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This is a polite way to say that they were to kill or drive out all the Canaanites out of the Promised Land. This could be translated as: “must get all the Canaanites out of the land” or “must remove from the land all of the Canaanites who are living there.” (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-euphemism]])
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# Do not make peace with them
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This could be translated as: “Do not live peacefully among or alongside them” or “Do not promise to live peacefully with them.”
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# do not marry them
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God did not want any Israelite person to marry any Canaanite person.
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# If you do not obey me
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The connecting word **If** introduces a hypothetical conditional relationship. If the Israelites do not obey God by driving out the Canaanites, in time they will also disobey God by worshiping the idols of the Canaanites. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/grammar-connect-condition-hypothetical]])
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# you will end up worshiping their idols
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If the Israelites became friends with the Canaanites and did not destroy the idols, they would be tempted to worship those idols instead of God. |