To SLIP OFF, drop off, be shaken loose — a verb about things coming away from what they were attached to, which Deuteronomy uses of God removing whole nations. It is the word for a sandal leaving a foot: ‘shal your sandals from your feet’ at the burning bush (Exodus 3:5, already on these pages) is this verb in the imperative. It is also the word for an axe head flying off its handle and killing a bystander (Deuteronomy 19:5, not yet on these pages) — the accident the cities of refuge exist for. ⭐ Deuteronomy 7:1 and 7:22 bracket that chapter with it, once for the whole conquest and once for its slowness, and this translation reads ‘shakes loose’ both times. ⚠ The whole shelf substitutes conquest vocabulary — cast out, drive out, root out, clear away — which is right about the effect and spends the picture. Elsewhere the same verb is used of an olive tree dropping its fruit (Deuteronomy 28:40) and of Rezin king of Aram pushing the Judeans out of Elath (2 Kings 16:6), neither yet on these pages. → first discussed at Deut 7:1