Exodus 23:20–33

The Angel and the Promises

^20b“Behold, I send an Angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. ²¹Beware of Him and obey His voice; ^cdo not provoke Him, for He will ^dnot pardon your transgressions; for ^eMy name is in Him. ²²But if you indeed obey His voice and do all that I speak, then ^fI will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. ^23gFor My Angel will go before you and ^hbring you in to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will ⁵cut them off. ²⁴You shall not ⁱbow down to their gods, nor serve them, ^jnor do according to their works; ^kbut you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars.

²⁵“So you shall ^lserve the Lord your God, and ^mHe will bless your bread and your water. And ⁿI will take sickness away from the midst of you. ^26oNo one shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land; I will ^pfulfill the number of your days.

²⁷“I will send ^qMy fear before you, I will ^rcause confusion among all the people to whom you come, and will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. ²⁸And ^sI will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you. ^29tI will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you. ³⁰Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased, and you inherit the land. ³¹And ^uI will set your ⁶bounds from the Red Sea to the sea, Philistia, and from the desert to the ⁷River. For I will ^vdeliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. ^32wYou shall make no ⁸covenant with them, nor with their gods. ³³They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, ^xit will surely be a snare to you.”