then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary
to your adversaries.
023:023 For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite,
the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite,
and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.
023:024 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them,
nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow
them and demolish their pillars.
023:025 You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread
and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst.
023:026 No one will miscarry or be barren in your land.
I will fulfill the number of your days.
023:027 I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people
to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn
their backs to you.
023:028 I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite,
the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.
023:029 I will not drive them out from before you in one year,
lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field
multiply against you.
023:030 Little by little I will drive them out from before you,
until you have increased and inherit the land.
023:031 I will set your border from the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds} even to
the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River;
for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand,
and you shall drive them out before you.
023:032 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
023:033 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin
against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely
be a snare to you."
024:001 He said to Moses, "Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab,
and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship
from a distance.
024:002 Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near,
neither shall the people go up with him."
024:003 Moses came and told the people all the words of Yahweh, and all
the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice,
and said, "All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do."
024:004 Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh, and rose up early
in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain,
and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
024:005 He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt
offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to Yahweh.
024:006 Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half
of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
024:007 He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing
of the people, and they said, "All that Yahweh has spoken
will we do, and be obedient."
024:008 Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people,