Exodus 23:20-33 ▼

20 Behold, I am sending a Messenger before you to keep you in the way, and to bring you to the place which I have prepared;

21 be watchful because of His presence, and listen to His voice, do not rebel against Him, for He does not bear with your transgression, for My Name [is] in His heart;

22 for if you listen diligently to His voice, and have done all that which I speak, then I have been at enmity with your enemies, and have distressed those distressing you.

23 For My Messenger goes before you, and has brought you to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, and I have cut them off.

24 You do not bow yourself to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their doings, but utterly devote them, and thoroughly break their standing pillars.

25 And you have served your God YHWH, and He has blessed your bread and your water, and I have turned aside sickness from your heart;

26 there is not a miscarrying and barren one in your land; I fulfill the number of your days.

27 I send My terror before you, and I have put to death all the people among whom you come, and I have given the neck of all your enemies to you.

28 And I have sent the hornet before you, and it has cast out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you;

29 I do not cast them out from before you in one year, lest the land be a desolation, and the beast of the field has multiplied against you;

30 I cast them out little [by] little from before you, until you are fruitful, and have inherited the land.

31 And I have set your border from the Red Sea, even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you have cast them out from before you.

32 You do not make a covenant with them and with their gods;

33 they do not dwell in your land, lest they cause you to sin against Me when you serve their gods, when it becomes a snare to you.”