1 When Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to
possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, the Hittite, and the
Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the
Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you;
2 and when Yahweh your God shall deliver them up before you, and you shall
strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no covenant
with them, nor show mercy to them; 3 neither shall you make marriages with
them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall you
take to your son. 4 For he will turn away your son from following me, that
they may serve other gods: so will the anger of Yahweh be kindled against
you, and he will destroy you quickly. 5 But thus shall you deal with
them: you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their
pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with
fire. 6 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God: Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh loves you, and because he
would keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, has Yahweh 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 Yahweh your God,
he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them
who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations, 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 commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I
command you this day, to do them. 12 It shall happen, because you
listen to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will
keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your
fathers: 13 and he will love you, and 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 cattle and the young of
your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you. 14 You
shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren
among you, or among your cattle. 15 Yahweh will take away from you all
sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, will he put
on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you. 16 You shall consume
all the peoples who Yahweh your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall not
pity them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will 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 well
remember what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt; 19 the
great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the
mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you
out: so shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
20 Moreover Yahweh 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 Yahweh your God is in the midst of you, a great
and awesome God. 22 Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you
by little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the animals of
the field increase on you. 23 But Yahweh your God will deliver them up
before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they be
destroyed. 24 He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall
make their name to perish from under the sky: there shall no man be able to
stand before you, until you have destroyed them. 25 The engraved images of
their gods shall you burn with fire: you shall not covet the silver or
the gold that is on them, nor take it to you, lest you be snared therein; for
it is an abomination to Yahweh your God. 26 You shall not bring an
abomination into your house, and become a devoted thing like it: you shall
utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted
thing.
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