The Command to Observe That Covenant Accompanied by a Promise to Drive Out the Canaanites (34:11).
“Observe what I command you this day. Behold I will drive out before you the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite and the Jebusite.”
Israel are to take care that they observe all that Yahweh has commanded them. This renewal of His promise to drive out the Canaanites is an assurance that their previous failure has been forgiven. But they must beware that it does not happen again.
The names of the nations to be driven out are the same as those mentioned regularly prior to this, but not in the same order. It is not a stereotyped list. Compare Exodus 3:8; Exodus 3:17; Exodus 23:23; Deuteronomy 20:17. Six is twice three indicating intensified completeness. In Exodus 13:5 five nations are mentioned. The Perizzites are lacking. This was probably because being in Egypt at the time Moses has in mind that in Egypt five was the number of completeness. In Deuteronomy 7:1 seven nations are mentioned, something which is accentuated. Seven is the number of divine completeness.