55 “‘If, though, you do not drive the inhabitants of the land away from before you,+ those whom you allow to remain will be as irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they will harass you in the land where you will dwell.+

16 But in the cities of these peoples, which Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not allow any breathing thing to live.+

13 When the Israelites grew strong, they subjected the Caʹnaan·ites to forced labor,+ but they did not drive them out* entirely.+