23. When my messenger goes in front of you and brings you to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I wipe them out,
24. don’t bow down to their gods, worship them, or do what they do. Instead, you should completely destroy them and smash their sacred stone pillars to bits.
25. If you worship the Lord your God, the Lord will bless your bread and your water. I’ll take sickness away from you,
26. and no woman will miscarry or be infertile in your land. I’ll let you live a full, long life.
27. My terrifying reputation will precede you, and I’ll throw all the people that you meet into a panic. I’ll make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
28. I’ll send insect swarms in front of you and 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 the land won’t be abandoned and the wild animals won’t multiply around you.
30. I’ll drive them out before you little by little, until your numbers grow and you eventually possess the land.
31. I’ll set your borders from the Reed Sea to the Philistine Sea and from the desert to the River. I’ll hand the inhabitants of the land over to you, and you will drive them out before you.
32. Don’t make any covenants with them or their gods.
33. Don’t allow them to live in your land, or else they will lead you to sin against me. If you worship their gods, it will become a dangerous trap for you.