23:24 “You must not bow down to their gods; you must not serve them or do according to their practices. Instead you must completely overthrow them and smash their standing stones ³  to pieces. ⁴  23:25 You must serve ⁵  the Lord your God, and he ⁶  will bless your bread and your water, ⁷  and I will remove sickness from your midst. 23:26 No woman will miscarry her young ⁸  or be barren in your land. I will fulfill ⁹  the number of your days.

23:27 “I will send my terror ¹⁰  before you, and I will destroy ¹¹  all the people whom you encounter; I will make all your enemies turn their backs ¹²  to you. 23:28 I will send ¹³  hornets before you that will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you. 23:29 I will not drive them out before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild animals ¹⁴  multiply against you. 23:30 Little by little ¹⁵  I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land. 23:31 I will set ¹⁶  your boundaries from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the River, ¹⁷  for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

23:32 “You must make no covenant with them or with their gods. 23:33 They must not live in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare ¹⁸  to you.”