²⁰ “See, I am sending an Angel before you to lead you safely to the land I have prepared for you. ²¹ Reverence him and obey all of his instructions; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression; he is my representative—he bears my name.^{[a] 22} But if you are careful to obey him, following all my instructions, then I will be an enemy to your enemies. ²³ For my Angel shall go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, to live there. And I will destroy those people before you.

²⁴ “You must not worship the gods of these other nations, nor sacrifice to them in any way, and you must not follow the evil example of these heathen people; you must utterly conquer them and break down their shameful idols.

²⁵ “You shall serve the Lord your God only; then I will bless you with food and with water, and I will take away sickness from among you. ²⁶ There will be no miscarriages nor barrenness throughout your land, and you will live out the full quota of the days of your life.

²⁷ “The terror of the Lord shall fall upon all the people whose land you invade, and they will flee before you; ²⁸ and I will send hornets to drive out the Hivites, Canaanites, and Hittites from before you. ²⁹ I will not do it all in one year, for the land would become a wilderness, and the wild animals would become too many to control. ³⁰ But I will drive them out a little at a time, until your population has increased enough to fill the land. ³¹ And I will set your enlarged boundaries from the Red Sea to the Philistine coast, and from the southern deserts as far as the Euphrates River; and I will cause you to defeat the people now living in the land, and you will drive them out ahead of you.

³² “You must make no covenant with them, nor have anything to do with their gods. ³³ Don’t let them live among you! For I know that they will infect you with their sin of worshiping false gods, and that would be an utter disaster to you.”