DE-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;
DE-7:2 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 show mercy unto them:
DE-7:3 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.
DE-7:4 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.
DE-7:5 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.
DE-7:6 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.
DE-7:7 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:
DE-7:8 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.
DE-7:9 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;
DE-7:10 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.
DE-7:11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the
statutes, and the
judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
DE-7:12 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:
DE-7:13 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.
DE-7:14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not
be male or
female barren among you, or among your cattle.
DE-7:15 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.
DE-7:16 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.
DE-7:17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations [are]
more than I;
how can I dispossess them?
DE-7:18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: [but] shalt well
remember what the
LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
DE-7:19 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.
DE-7:20 Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among
them, until they
that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
DE-7:21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy
God [is] among
you, a mighty God and terrible.
DE-7:22 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.
DE-7:23 But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and
shall destroy
them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
DE-7:24 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.
DE-7:25 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 therein: for it [is] an abomination to the LORD
thy God.
DE-7:26 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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