Exodus 23:27-33
Holman Christian Standard Bible
27 “I will cause the people ahead of you to feel terror[a] and throw into confusion(A) all the nations you come to. I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you in retreat. 28 I will send the hornet[b](B) in front of you, and it will drive the Hivites, Canaanites, and Hittites away from you. 29 I will not drive them out ahead of you in a single year; otherwise, the land would become desolate, and wild animals would multiply against you. 30 I will drive them out little by little ahead of you until you have become numerous[c] and take possession of the land. 31 I will set your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea,[d] and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River.[e] For I will place the inhabitants of the land under your control, and you will drive them out ahead of you.(C) 32 You must not make a covenant(D) with them or their gods. 33 They must not remain in your land, or else they will make you sin against Me. If you worship their gods, it will be a snare for you.”(E)
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- Exodus 23:27 Lit will send terror of Me ahead of you
- Exodus 23:28 Or send panic
- Exodus 23:30 Lit fruitful
- Exodus 23:31 Lit the Sea of the Philistines
- Exodus 23:31 Lit the River
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