15. Thus you are to do to all the cities which are far away, which are not the cities of these nearby nations.
16. But of the cities of these people, which the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.
17. But you shall completely destroy them: namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, just as the Lord your God has commanded you,
18. so that they do not teach you to participate in all their abominations, which they have done to their gods, causing you to sin against the Lord your God.