 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 Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you, 2 and the Lord your God delivers them to you, you shall crush them and completely destroy them. Do not make any covenant with them nor show mercy to them. 3 Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son nor take his daughter for your son. 4 For they will turn away your son from following me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you and will destroy you suddenly. 5 But you shall deal with them in this way. You shall destroy their altars, break down their images, cut down their groves, and burn their graven 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 special people to Himself more than all people that are upon the face of the earth. 7 The Lord did not set His love upon you nor choose you because you were more in number than any people, for you were the fewest of all people. 8 But because the Lord loved you and because He would keep the oath that He had sworn to your fathers, the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of slaves, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Therefore, know that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy with those who love Him and keep His commandments to a thousand generations. 10 He repays those who hate Him to their face to destroy them. He will not be slow to repay those who hate Him but He will repay them to their face. 11 You shall keep the commandments and the statutes and the judgments that I command you today to do them. 12 Because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, the Lord your God will keep the covenant and mercy with you that He swore to your fathers. 13 He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the flocks of your sheep in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you. 14 You will be blessed more than all people. There will not be male or female barren among you or among your cattle. 15 The Lord will take away from you all sickness and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt that you know upon you. But He will lay them upon all who hate you. 16 You shall destroy all the people that the Lord your God will deliver you. Your eye shall have no pity upon them, nor shall you serve their gods. For they will be a snare to you. 17 If you say in your heart, These nations are more than I. How can I throw them out? 18 You shall not be afraid of them but remember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt. 19 Remember the great temptations that your eyes saw and the signs and the wonders and the mighty hand and the stretched out arm by which the Lord your God brought you out. So will the Lord your God do to all the people of whom you are afraid. 20 The Lord your God will send the hornet among them until the ones who are left and who hide themselves from you are destroyed. 21 You shall not be afraid of them. For the Lord your God is among you, a mighty and awesome+ God. 22 The Lord your God will put out those nations before you little by little. You may not destroy them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon you. 23 The Lord your God will deliver them to you and will destroy them with a mighty ruin until they are destroyed. 24 He will deliver their kings to you and you will destroy their name from under the heavens. No one will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them. 25 You shall burn the graven images of their gods with fire. You shall not desire the silver or gold on them nor take it for yourself so that you may not be snared by it. For it is an abomination to the Lord your God. 26 You shall not bring any abomination into your house, lest you be a cursed thing like it. You shall utterly hate it and despise it for it is a cursed thing.
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