23 For My angel will go before you and bring you to the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out.(A) 24 You must not bow down to their gods or worship them. Do not imitate their practices. Instead, demolish them[a] and smash their sacred pillars to pieces.(B) 25 Worship the Lord your God, and He[b] will bless your bread and your water. I will remove illnesses from you.(C) 26 No woman will miscarry or be childless in your land. I will give you the full number of your days.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 23:24 Probably the idols
  2. Exodus 23:25 LXX, Vg read I

13 Instead, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and chop down their Asherah poles.(A)

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Israel to Destroy Idolatrous Nations

“When the Lord your God brings you into the land(A) you are entering to possess,(B) and He drives out many nations before you—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you— and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must completely destroy them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy. Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,(C) because they will turn your sons away from Me to worship other gods. Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you. Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles,(D) and burn up their carved images.

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