Catholic Public Domain Version

Exodus 23:20-32 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

20. Behold, I will send my Angel, who will go before you, and preserve you on your journey, and lead you into the place that I have prepared.

21. Heed him, and hear his voice, and do not hold him in disregard. For he will not release you when you have sinned, and my name is in him.

22. But if you listen to his voice and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will afflict those who afflict you.

23. And my Angel will go before you, and he will bring you to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, whom I will crush.

24. You shall not adore their gods, nor worship them. You shall not do their works, but you shall destroy them and break apart their statues.

25. And you shall serve the Lord your God, so that I may bless your bread and your waters, and so that I may take away sickness from your midst.

26. There will not be fruitless or barren ones in your land. I will fill up the number of your days.

27. I will send my terror to run ahead of you, and I will kill all the people to whom you will enter. And I will turn the backs of all your enemies before you,

28. sending wasps ahead, so that they will put to flight the Hivite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, before you enter.

29. I will not cast them out from your face in one year, lest the land be reduced to a wilderness and the wild beasts increase against you.

30. I will expel them little by little from your sight, until you have expanded and may possess the land.

31. Then I will set your limits to be from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Palestinians, and from the desert all the way to the river. I will deliver into your hands the inhabitants of the land, and I will cast them out from your sight.

32. You shall not enter into a pact with them, nor with their gods.