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