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cuts off the nations

Yahweh destroying the people groups in Canaan is spoken of as if he were cutting them off, as one would cut a piece of cloth or cut a branch from a tree. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor)

the nations

Here "nations" represents the people living in Canaan. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy)

when you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them

"when you take everything from them"