“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning. “The best of the first-fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. Comment: leaven in many instances in the scriptures is used as an example of sin. It was not forbidden to be used in cooking except at certain times. Sin is a reality. God deserves holy living and our offerings to Him should be the best that we have!
“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. Comment: I presume that this is a respect for motherhood and the life which after all is a gift from God.
“Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.
“But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
“When my angel goes before you and brings you to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I blot them out, you shall not bow down to their gods nor serve them, nor do as they do, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces. You shall serve the LORD your God, …(v25b -v29).. Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and possess the land. And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. You shall make no covenant with them and their gods. They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”
Comment: I have cut out v25b – cp29, which you can look up in your Bible if you wish. It is a very long passage and the resected section is about happenings on the trip.. But most of the remainder applies to what is to happen when they arrive in the Promised Land -Canaan. There were obviously many smallish tribes, descendants of Ishmael and other children of Abraham apart from Isaac and I guess even going back to Noah. These orders and the promises were for Isaacs’ descendants. He promises to lead and guard them into the land; empty the land for them – which included many wars and miraculous events (consider the walls around the resisting ‘Jericho-ites’. The walls fell down and let the Israelis in!). But they were to be separate for God, refusing to worship other area’s ‘gods’ and even ordered to destroy their altars. We know that much of the ‘worship of idols included human sacrifices and sexual immorality.’ The land was to be theirs, and they were to be holy unto the Lord Jehovah, the True and Living God.
Prayer: Father please by Your Spirit guide and help me to live according the glorious plan for me in Jesus.
As I read it! 