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7 : 1 When theLordyour God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you,the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nationsmore numerous and mightier than you,
7 : 2 and when theLordyour God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you mustdevote them to complete destruction.You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.
7 : 3 You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,
7 : 4 for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods.Then the anger of theLordwould be kindled against you, and he would destroy youquickly.
7 : 5 But thus shall you deal with them:you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces theirpillars and chop down theirAsherim andburn their carved images with fire.
7 : 6 Foryou are a people holy to theLordyour God. TheLordyour God has chosen you to bea people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
7 : 7 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that theLordset his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples,
7 : 8 butit is because theLordloves you and is keepingthe oath that he swore to your fathers, that theLordhas brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
7 : 9 Know therefore that theLordyour God is God,the faithful Godwho keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
7 : 10 andrepays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them.He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face.
7 : 11 You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.
7 : 12 And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, theLordyour God will keep with youthe covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers.
7 : 13 He willlove you, bless you, and multiply you.He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you.
7 : 14 You shall be blessed above all peoples.There shall not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock.
7 : 15 And theLordwill take away from you all sickness, and none of the evildiseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you.
7 : 16 Andyou shall consume all the peoples that theLordyour God will give over to you.Your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would bea snare to you.
7 : 17 If you say in your heart,These nations are greater than I. How can I dispossess them?
7 : 18 you shall not be afraid of them but you shallremember what theLordyour God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt,
7 : 19 the great trials that your eyes saw,the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which theLordyour God brought you out. So will theLordyour God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
7 : 20 Moreover,theLordyour God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed.
7 : 21 You shall not be in dread of them, for theLordyour God isin your midst,a great and awesome God.
7 : 22 TheLordyour God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once,lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.
7 : 23 But theLordyour God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.
7 : 24 Andhe will give their kings into your hand, and you shallmake their name perish from under heaven.No one shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.
7 : 25 The carved images of their godsyou shall burn with fire. Youshall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, lest you beensnared by it, for it is an abomination to theLordyour God.
7 : 26 And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destructionlike it. You shall utterly detest and abhor it,for it is devoted to destruction.