'Nations' in the Bible

"'Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.

So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it just as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.

"'As for your male and female slaves who may belong to you -- you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you.

I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

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

I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out from the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the Lord.'"