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# General Information:
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Moses is still speaking to the people of Israel.
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# When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations
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Yahweh destroying the people who live in Canaan is spoken of as if he were cutting them off, as one would cut a piece of cloth or cut a branch from a tree. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# the nations
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This represents the people groups that live in Canaan. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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# those whose land Yahweh your God is giving you
"those nations who were living in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you"
# come after them
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"take the land from those nations" or "possess the land after those nations are gone"
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