Exodus 23:27-33 ▼

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.”