It's not always a good idea to quote isolated passages without citation, identification and some contextual basis. Many scholars without a bias or an agenda will explain that the 'destroy' (it's 'destruction in my ESV Bible) refers to the total dispossession and eviction of the various Canaanite peoples from the Promised Land. This taking away of their identifiable land would lead to their destruction as a people - not the 'genocide' so many anti-religious wish it to be. Read about the 'poor' Canaanites who sacrificed their little children.
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