Exodus 23:20-24

Modern English Version

The Angel Prepares the Way

²⁰ Indeed, I am going to send an angel before you to guard you along the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. ²¹ Be on guard before him and obey his voice. Do not provoke him, for he will not pardon your transgressions, for My name is in him. ²² But if you diligently obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. ²³ For My angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I will completely destroy them. ²⁴ You must not bow down to their gods, or serve them, or do according to their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break down their images in pieces.