Exodus 23

29 But I will not do this all in one year because the land would become a wilderness, and the wild animals would become too many to control.

30 I will drive them out a little at a time until your population has increased enough to fill the land.

31 And I will fix your boundaries from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea,* and from the southern deserts to the Euphrates River.* I will help you defeat the people now living in the land, and you will drive them out ahead of you.¹

32 "Make no treaties with them and have nothing to do with their gods.

33 Do not even let them live among you! If you do, they will infect you with their sin of idol worship, and that would be disastrous for you."

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1: Hebrew from the sea of reeds to the sea of the Philistines.

^{New Living Translation Bible and Notes used with permission Tyndale House Publishers.}