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-\v 1 At that time there were still many people groups in Canaan. Yahweh left them there to test the Israelite people. But many of the Israelites in Canaan had not fought in any of the previous wars. 
+\v 1 At that time there were still many people groups in Canaan. Yahweh left them there to test the Israelite people because many of the Israelites in Canaan had not fought in any of the previous wars. 
 \v 2 So Yahweh did this to teach the new generation of Israelites how to wage war.
 \v 3 This is a list of the people groups that Yahweh left there to test the Israelites: The Philistines and their five leaders, the people living in the area near the city of Sidon, the descendants of Canaan, and the Hivites who were living in the mountains of Lebanon between Mount Baal Hermon and Lebo Hamath ("the pass of Hamath").