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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Tanach: Exodus 23: 28 And I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
Exodus 23: 29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee.
Exodus 23: 30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
Exodus 23: 31 And I will set thy border from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
Exodus 23: 32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
Exodus 23: 33 They shall not dwell in thy land--lest they make thee sin against Me, for thou wilt serve their gods--for they will be a snare unto thee.
Exodus 24: 1 Thou shalt not utter a false report; put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Exodus 24: 2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou bear witness in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to pervert justice;
Exodus 24: 3 neither shalt thou favour a poor man in his cause.
Exodus 24: 4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
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