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And these are the nations which Jehovah left in order to test Israel by them, all who did not know all the wars of Canaan;

only that the generations of the sons of Israel might know, to teach them war, only those who did not before know them:

five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that lived in Mount Lebanon from Mount Baal-hermon to the entering of Hamath.

And they existed to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the commands of Jehovah, which He had commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

And the sons of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

And they took their daughters to themselves for wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and they served their gods.