'Nations' in the Bible

"You are not to defile yourselves by doing any of these things, since all of these nations that I'm casting out before you have defiled themselves this way.

So you are not to let the land vomit you up because of your uncleanness as it is vomiting the nations that were here before you.

You are not to live by the customs of the nations, whom I've cast away right in front of you. Because they did all of these things, I detested them.

"As for your male and maid slaves who will be with you, you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations.

"I'll scatter you among the nations and draw the sword after you so that your land becomes desolate and your towns become ruins.

"You won't have power to resist your enemies. You'll perish among the nations and the land of your enemies will consume you.

Instead, on account of them, I'll remember my covenant with their ancestors when I brought them out of the land of Egypt right before the eyes of the nations, so that I could be their God. I am the LORD."