'Nations' in the Bible

‘Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled.

As for your male and female slaves whom you may have—you may acquire male and female slaves from the pagan nations that are around you.

I will scatter you among the nations and draw out the sword [of your enemies] after you; your land will become desolate and your cities will become ruins.

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

But I will, for their sake, [earnestly] remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I have brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the Lord.’”