Deuteronomy 7
1 When Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to
possess it, and shall cast out many nations before thee, 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 thou;
2 and when Jehovah thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt
smite them; then thou shalt utterly destroy them: thou shalt make no covenant
with them, nor show mercy unto them;
3 neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give
unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
4 For he will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other
gods: so will the anger of Jehovah be kindled against you, and he will destroy
thee quickly.
5 But thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall break down their altars, and dash
in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven
images with fire.
6 For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God: Jehovah thy God hath chosen
thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the
face of the earth.
7 Jehovah did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in
number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all peoples:
8 but because Jehovah loveth you, and because he would keep the oath which he
sware unto your fathers, hath Jehovah 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 Jehovah thy God, he is God, the faithful God, who keepeth
covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him and keep his commandments to
a thousand generations,
10 and repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not
be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the
ordinances, which I command thee this day, to do them.
12 And it shall come to pass, because ye hearken to these ordinances, and keep
and do them, that Jehovah thy God will keep with thee the covenant and the
lovingkindness which he sware unto thy fathers:
13 and he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; he will also bless
the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy ground, thy grain and thy new wine
and thine oil, the increase of thy cattle and the young of thy flock, in the
land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
14 Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female
barren among you, or among your cattle.
15 And Jehovah will take away from thee all sickness; and none of the evil
diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, will he put upon thee, but will lay them
upon all them that hate thee.
16 And thou shalt consume all the peoples that Jehovah thy God shall deliver
unto thee; thine eye shall not pity them: neither shalt thou serve their gods;
for that will be a snare unto thee.
17 If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations are more than I; how can I
dispossess them?
18 thou shalt not be afraid of them: thou shalt well remember what Jehovah thy
God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
19 the great trials which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and
the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, whereby Jehovah thy God brought thee
out: so shall Jehovah thy God do unto all the peoples of whom thou art afraid.
20 Moreover Jehovah thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are
left, and hide themselves, perish from before thee.
21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them; for Jehovah thy God is in the midst of
thee, a great God and a terrible.
22 And Jehovah thy God will cast out those nations before thee by little and
little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field
increase upon thee.
23 But Jehovah thy God will deliver them up before thee, and will discomfit them
with a great discomfiture, until they be destroyed.
24 And he will deliver their kings into thy hand, and thou shalt make their name
to perish from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee,
until thou have destroyed them.
25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not covet
the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be
snared therein; for it is an abomination to Jehovah thy God.
26 And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house, and become a devoted
thing like unto it: thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor
it; for it is a devoted thing.