Exodus 23:24–33

²⁴“ ‘You will not bow to their gods, and you will not serve them, and you will not act according to their actions, because you will utterly demolish them, and you will utterly break their stone pillars. ²⁵And you will serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will remove sickness from among you. ²⁶There will be no one suffering miscarriage or infertile in your land. I will make full the number of your days.^t

²⁷“ ‘I will release my terror before you, and I will throw into confusion all the people against whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their back to you.^{u 28}And I will send the hornet before you, and it will drive out the Hivites,^v the Canaanites,^w and the Hittites^x from before you. ²⁹I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become a desolation and the wild animals^y multiply against you. ³⁰Little by little I will drive them out from before you until you are fruitful and take possession of the land.

³¹“ ‘And I will set your boundary from the Red Sea^z and up to the sea of the Philistines and from the desert up to the river,^a because I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out from before you. ³²You will not make a covenant with them and with their gods. ³³They will not live in your land, lest they cause you to sin against me when you serve their gods, for it will be a snare to you.’ ”