'Nations' in the Bible

“Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves by all these things.

If you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.

You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and I abhorred them.

You are to be holy to Me because I, Yahweh, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be Mine.

Your male and female slaves are to be from the nations around you; you may purchase male and female slaves.

But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword to chase after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins.

You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.

For their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God; I am Yahweh.”