Exodus 23:22-33

New Catholic Bible

²² If you listen to his voice and do what I will tell you, I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

²³ “When my angel goes before you and leads you to the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, I will destroy them. ²⁴ You shall not bow down to their gods nor serve them. You shall not do what they do, but rather you shall demolish and break their sacred pillars to pieces.

²⁵ “You shall serve the Lord, your God. He will bless your bread and water and take away sickness from your midst. ²⁶ There will be no woman in your land who miscarries or who is sterile. I will make you arrive at the full count of your days.

²⁷ “I will send my terror before you and throw into confusion all the peoples among whom you will come. I will make your enemies turn their backs and flee.

²⁸ “I will send hornets ahead of you and they will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you. ²⁹ I will not drive them out from before you in a single year lest the country remain deserted and the wild beasts multiply against you. ³⁰ Little by little I will drive them out before you until you have many sons to occupy the land.

³¹ “I will establish your borders from the Red Sea up to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the river. I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hands and I will drive them out from before you. ³² But you must not make a covenant with them or their gods. ³³ They are no longer to live in your land. Otherwise, they would make you sin against me, for you would serve their gods and that would be a trap for you.”