Exodus 23:24–33

²⁴you shall not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices, but you shall utterly demolish them and break their pillars in pieces.^{* 25}You shall serve the Lord your God, and I^s will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.^{* 26}No one shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.^{* 27}I will send my terror in front of you and will throw into confusion all the people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. ²⁸And I will send swarms of hornets^t in front of you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.^{* 29}I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild animals multiply against you.^{* 30}Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and possess the land. ³¹I will set your borders from the Red Sea^u to the sea of the Philistines and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will hand over to you the inhabitants of the land, and you shall drive them out before you.^{* 32}You shall make no covenant with them and their gods.^{* 33}They shall not live in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”^*