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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;
02 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:
03 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.
04 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.
05 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.
06 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.
07 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:
08 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.
09 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.
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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.
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