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# cuts off the nations
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Yahweh destroying the people groups 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/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# the nations
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Here "nations" represents the people living in Canaan. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# when you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them
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"when you take everything from them"
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