Exodus 23:20-33
International Standard Version
God Promises Help as the Israelis Enter Canaan
20 “Look, I’m sending an angel in front of you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place I’ve prepared. 21 Be careful! Be sure to obey him. Don’t rebel against him, because he won’t forgive your transgression, since my Name is in him. 22 Indeed, if you carefully obey him and do everything that I say, then I’ll be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries, 23 because my angel will go ahead of you and will bring you to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I’ll annihilate them. 24 You are not to bow down to their gods or serve them. You are not to follow their practices,[a] but you are to overthrow them completely and smash their sacred stones[b] to pieces. 25 You are to serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your food[c] and water, and I’ll remove sickness from you. 26 No woman will miscarry or be barren in your land, and I’ll make every day of your life complete.[d]
27 “I’ll go ahead of you and terrorize all the people to whom you are coming. I’ll confuse your enemies and make them turn their backs on you and run away.[e] 28 I’ll send hornets ahead of you and they’ll drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites before you. 29 I won’t drive them out before you in a single year, so that the land does not become desolate and so that wild animals do not overrun you. 30 I’ll drive them out ahead of you little by little until you increase in numbers[f] and possess the land.
31 “I’ll set your borders from the Reed[g] Sea to the Sea of the Philistines,[h] and from the desert to the Euphrates[i] River, bringing[j] the inhabitants of the land under your control,[k] and you are to drive them out ahead of you. 32 You are not to make a covenant with them or with their gods. 33 They are not to live in your land. Otherwise they will cause you to sin against me. If you worship their gods, it will become a snare for you.”
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- Exodus 23:24 Lit. do their deeds
- Exodus 23:24 Or pillars
- Exodus 23:25 Or bread
- Exodus 23:26 Lit. make the number of your days full
- Exodus 23:27 The Heb. lacks and run away
- Exodus 23:30 Lit. you are fruitful
- Exodus 23:31 So MT; LXX reads Red
- Exodus 23:31 I.e. Mediterranean Sea
- Exodus 23:31 MT lacks Euphrates
- Exodus 23:31 Lit. giving
- Exodus 23:31 Lit. into your hand
Exodus 23:20-33
Lexham English Bible
Reasons for Loyal Obedience
20 “‘Look, I am about to send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. 21 Be attentive to him and listen to his voice; do not rebel against him, because he will not forgive your transgression, for my name is in him. 22 But if you listen attentively to his voice and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes. 23 When my angel goes before you and brings you to the Amorites[a] and the Hittites[b] and the Perizzites[c] and the Canaanites[d] and the Hivites[e] and the Jebusites,[f] I will wipe them out.
24 “‘You will not bow to their gods, and you will not serve them, and you will not act according to their actions, because you will utterly demolish them, and you will utterly break their stone pillars. 25 And you will serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will remove sickness from among you. 26 There will be no one suffering miscarriage or infertile in your land. I will make full the number of your days.[g]
27 “‘I will release my terror before you, and I will throw into confusion all the people against whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their back to you.[h] 28 And I will send the hornet before you, and it will drive out the Hivites,[i] the Canaanites,[j] and the Hittites[k] from before you. 29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become a desolation and the wild animals[l] multiply against you. 30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you until you are fruitful and take possession of the land.
31 “‘And I will set your boundary from the Red Sea[m] and up to the sea of the Philistines and from the desert up to the river,[n] because I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out from before you. 32 You will not make a covenant with them and with their gods. 33 They will not live in your land, lest they cause you to sin against me when you serve their gods, for it will be a snare to you.’”
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- Exodus 23:23 Hebrew “Amorite”
- Exodus 23:23 Hebrew “Hittite”
- Exodus 23:23 Hebrew “Perizzite”
- Exodus 23:23 Hebrew “Canaanite”
- Exodus 23:23 Hebrew “Hivite”
- Exodus 23:23 Hebrew “Jebusite”
- Exodus 23:26 Or “give you a full life span”
- Exodus 23:27 Literally “give all your enemies to you back”
- Exodus 23:28 Hebrew “Hivite”
- Exodus 23:28 Hebrew “Canaanite”
- Exodus 23:28 Hebrew “Hittite”
- Exodus 23:29 Literally “the animal of the field”
- Exodus 23:31 Literally “sea of reed”
- Exodus 23:31 Or “the Euphrates”
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