23:25. And you shall serve the Lord your God, that I may bless your bread and your waters, and may take away sickness from the midst of thee. 23:26. There shall not be one fruitless nor barren in thy land: I will fill the number of thy days. 23:27. I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come: and will turn the backs of all thy enemies before thee: 23:28. Sending out hornets before, that shall drive away the Hevite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, before thou come in. 23:29. I will not cast them out from thy face in one year; lest the land be brought into a wilderness, and the beasts multiply against thee. 23:30. By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, till thou be increased, and dost possess the land. 23:31. And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea to the sea of the Palestines, and from the desert to the river: I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hands, and will drive them out from before you. 23:32. Thou shalt not enter into league with them, nor with their gods. 23:33. Let them not dwell in thy land, lest perhaps they make thee sin against me, if thou serve their gods; which, undoubtedly, will be a scandal to thee. Exodus Chapter 24 Moses writeth his law; and after offering sacrifices, sprinkleth the blood of the testament upon the people: then goeth up the mountain which God covereth with a fiery cloud. 24:1. And he said to Moses: Come up to the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of Israel, and you shall adore afar off. 24:2. And Moses alone shall come up to the Lord, but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people come up with him. 24:3. So Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice: We will do all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken. 24:4. And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord: and rising in the morning, he built an altar at the foot of the mount, and twelve titles according to the twelve tribes of Israel. Titles... That is, pillars. 24:5. And he sent young men of the children of Israel, and they offered holocausts, and sacrificed pacific victims of calves to the Lord. Holocausts... Whole burnt offerings, in which the whole sacrifice was consumed with fire upon the altar. 24:6. Then Moses took half of the blood, and put it into bowls; and the rest he poured upon the altar. 24:7. And taking the book of the covenant, he read it in the hearing of the people: and they said: All things that the Lord hath spoken, we will do, we will be obedient. 24:8. And he took the blood and sprinkled it upon the people, and he said: This is the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words. 24:9. Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of Israel went up: