Bible
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Deuteronomy 7
1
When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to
possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the
Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the
Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
2 And
when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them,
and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew 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
they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods:
so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy thee
suddenly.
5 But
thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down
their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with
fire.
6 For
thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen
thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the
face of the earth.
7 The
Lord 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 people:
8 But
because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had
sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and
redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of
Egypt.
9
Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which
keepeth covenant and mercy 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 commandments, and the statutes, and the
judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
12
Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep,
and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the
mercy 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 womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine
oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which
he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
14
Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female
barren among you, or among your cattle.
15 And
the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil
diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all
them that hate thee.
16 And
thou shalt consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee;
thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods;
for that will be a snare unto thee.
17 If
thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I
dispossess them?
18
Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the Lord thy God
did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
19 The
great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the
mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the Lord thy God brought thee
out: so shall the Lord thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.
20
Moreover the Lord thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are
left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
21
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the Lord thy God is among you, a
mighty God and terrible.
22 And
the Lord thy God will put 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
the Lord thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a
mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
24 And
he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name
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 desire the
silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared
therin: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
26
Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed
thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor
it; for it is a cursed thing.