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1 When
the LORD your
God brings you
into the land
where you go
to possess it,
and casts out many
nations before
you—the Hittite,
the Girgashite,
the Amorite, the
Canaanite, the
Perizzite, the
Hivite, and the
Jebusite—seven
nations greater
and mightier than
you;
2 and
when the LORD
your God delivers
them up before
you, and you
strike them, then
you shall utterly
destroy them. You
shall make no
covenant with them,
nor show mercy
to them.
3 You
shall not make
marriages with
them. You shall
not give your
daughter to his
son, nor shall
you take his
daughter for your
son.
4 For
that would turn
away your sons
from following me,
that they may
serve other gods. So
the LORD’s anger
would be kindled
against you, and
he would destroy
you quickly.
5 But
you shall deal
with them like
this: you shall
break down their
altars, dash their
pillars in pieces,
cut down
their Asherah poles, and
burn their
engraved images
with fire.
6 For
you are a
holy people to
the LORD your
God. The LORD
your God has chosen
you to be
a people for
his own possession,
above all peoples
who are on
the face of
the earth.
7 The
LORD didn’t set
his love on
you nor choose you,
because you were
more in number
than any people;
for you were
the fewest of
all peoples;
8 but
because the
LORD loves you,
and because
he desires to keep
the oath which
he swore to
your fathers, the
LORD has brought
you out with
a mighty hand
and redeemed you
out of the
house of bondage,
from the hand
of Pharaoh king
of Egypt.
9 Know
therefore that the
LORD your God
himself is God,
the faithful God,
who keeps covenant
and loving kindness
to a thousand
generations with
those who love
him and keep
his commandments,
10 and
repays those who
hate him to
their face,
to destroy them.
He will not
be slack to him
who hates him.
He will repay
him to his
face.
11 You
shall therefore
keep the
commandments, the
statutes, and the
ordinances which I
command you today,
to do them.
12 It
shall happen,
because you listen
to these
ordinances and
keep and do
them, that the
LORD your God
will keep with
you the covenant
and the loving
kindness which he
swore to
your fathers.
13 He
will love you,
bless you, and
multiply you. He
will also bless
the fruit of
your body and the
fruit of
your ground, your
grain and your
new wine and
your oil, the
increase of
your livestock and
the young of
your flock, in
the land which he
swore to
your fathers to
give you.
14 You
will be blessed
above all peoples.
There won’t be
male or female
barren among you,
or among
your livestock.
15 The
LORD will take
away from you
all sickness; and
he will put
none of the
evil diseases of
Egypt, which you
know, on you,
but will lay
them on all
those who hate
you.
16 You
shall consume all
the peoples whom
the LORD your
God shall deliver
to you. Your
eye shall not
pity them. You
shall not serve
their gods; for
that would be
a snare to
you.
17 If
you shall say in
your heart, “These
nations are more
than I; how
can I dispossess
them?”
18 you
shall not be
afraid of them.
You shall remember
well what the
LORD your God
did to Pharaoh
and to all
Egypt:
19 the
great trials which
your eyes saw,
the signs, the
wonders, the
mighty hand, and
the outstretched
arm, by which
the LORD your
God brought you
out. So shall
the LORD your
God do to
all the peoples
of whom you
are afraid.
20 Moreover
the LORD your
God will send
the hornet among
them, until those
who are left,
and hide
themselves, perish from
before you.
21 You
shall not be scared
of them; for
the LORD your
God is among
you, a great
and awesome God.
22 The
LORD your God
will cast out
those nations
before you little
by little. You
may not consume
them at once,
lest the animals
of the field
increase on you.
23 But
the LORD your
God will deliver
them up before
you, and will
confuse them with
a great confusion,
until they are
destroyed.
24 He
will deliver their
kings into your
hand, and you
shall make their
name perish from
under the sky.
No one will
be able to
stand before you
until you have
destroyed them.
25 You
shall burn the
engraved images of
their gods with fire.
You shall not
covet the silver
or the gold
that is on
them, nor take
it for yourself,
lest you be
snared in it;
for it is
an abomination to
the LORD your
God.
26 You
shall not bring
an abomination
into your house
and become a
devoted thing like
it. You shall
utterly detest it.
You shall utterly
abhor it; for
it is a
devoted thing.