New American Standard Bible 1995

Exodus 23:20-33

20“Behold, I am going to send 1an angel before you to guard you along the way and 2to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

21Be on your guard before him and obey his voice; 3do not be rebellious toward him, for he will not pardon your transgression, since 4My name is in him.

22But if you truly obey his voice and do all that I say, then 5I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

23 6For My angel will go before you and bring you in to the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will completely destroy them.

24 7You shall not worship their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their deeds; 8but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their 9sacred pillars in pieces.

25 10But you shall serve the Lord your God, 11and He will bless your bread and your water; and 12I will remove sickness from your midst.

26There shall be no one miscarrying or 13barren in your land; 14I will fulfill the number of your days.

27I will 15send My terror ahead of you, and 16throw into confusion all the people among whom you come, and I will 17make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

28I will send 18hornets ahead of you so that they will 19drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites before you.

29 20I will not drive them out before you in a single year, that the land may not become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.

30I will drive them out before you 21little by little, until you become fruitful and take possession of the land.

31 22I will fix your boundary from the 23Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River Euphrates; 24for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will 25drive them out before you.

32 26You shall 27make no covenant with them 28or with their gods.

33 29They shall not live in your land, because they will make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, 30it will surely be a snare to you.”

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Notes

1. Exodus 23:20 Ex 3:2; 14:19; 23:23; 32:34; 33:2 ↩
2. Exodus 23:20 Ex 15:16, 17 ↩
3. Exodus 23:21 Deut 9:7; Ps 78:40, 56 ↩
4. Exodus 23:21 Ex 3:14; 6:3; 34:5-7 ↩
5. Exodus 23:22 Gen 12:3; Num 24:9; Deut 30:7 ↩
6. Exodus 23:23 Ex 23:20; Josh 24:8, 11 ↩
7. Exodus 23:24 Ex 20:5; 23:13, 33; Deut 12:30f ↩
8. Exodus 23:24 Num 33:52; Deut 7:5; 12:3; 2 Kin 18:4 ↩
9. Exodus 23:24 Ex 34:13; Lev 26:1; 2 Kin 3:2 ↩
10. Exodus 23:25 Lev 26:3-13; Deut 6:13; 10:12; 28:1-14; Josh 22:5; 1 Sam 12:20; Matt 4:10 ↩
11. Exodus 23:25 Or that He may bless ↩
12. Exodus 23:25 Ex 15:26; Deut 7:15 ↩
13. Exodus 23:26 Deut 7:14 ↩
14. Exodus 23:26 Deut 4:40; Job 5:26 ↩
15. Exodus 23:27 Gen 35:5; Ex 15:16; Deut 2:25; Josh 2:9 ↩
16. Exodus 23:27 Deut 7:23 ↩
17. Exodus 23:27 Ps 18:40; 21:12 ↩
18. Exodus 23:28 Deut 7:20; Josh 24:12 ↩
19. Exodus 23:28 Ex 33:2; 34:11 ↩
20. Exodus 23:29 Deut 7:22 ↩
21. Exodus 23:30 Deut 7:22 ↩
22. Exodus 23:31 Gen 15:18; Deut 1:7, 8; 11:24 ↩
23. Exodus 23:31 Lit Sea of Reeds ↩
24. Exodus 23:31 Deut 2:36; Josh 21:44 ↩
25. Exodus 23:31 Josh 24:12, 18 ↩
26. Exodus 23:32 Ex 34:12; Deut 7:2 ↩
27. Exodus 23:32 Lit cut ↩
28. Exodus 23:32 Ex 23:13, 24 ↩
29. Exodus 23:33 Deut 7:1-5, 16 ↩
30. Exodus 23:33 Ex 34:12; Deut 12:30; Josh 23:13; Judg 2:3; Ps 106:36 ↩

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