Deuteronomy 7

¹ When the LORDthe LORD thy GodGod shall bringbring thee into the landland whither thou goestgoest to possess it, and hath cast out manymany nationsnations beforebefore thee, the HittitesHittites, and the GirgashitesGirgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perrizites, and the HivitesHivites, and the JebusitesJebusites, sevenseven nationsnations greater and mightier than thou;

² And when the LORDthe LORD thy GodGod shall deliver them beforebefore thee, thou shalt smitesmite them and utterly destroy them, thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor showshow mercy to them:

³ Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not givegive to his sonson, nor his daughter shalt thou take to thy sonson.

⁴ For they will turnturn away thy sonson from followingfollowing me, that they may serveserve other godsgods: so will the angeranger of the LORDthe LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.

⁵ But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altarsaltars, and breakbreak down their imagesimages, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven imagesimages with firefire.

⁶ For thou art a holy people to the LORDthe LORD thy GodGod: the LORDthe LORD thy GodGod hath chosen thee to be a special people to himself, above all people that are upon the faceface of the earth.

⁷ The LORDThe 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 LORDthe LORD loved you, and because he would keepkeep the oathoath which he had swornsworn to your fathersfathers, hath the LORDthe LORD brought you out with a mightymighty handhand, and redeemed you from the househouse of bond-men, from the handhand of PharaohPharaoh king of EgyptEgypt.

⁹ KnowKnow therefore that the LORDthe LORD thy GodGod, he is GodGod, the faithful GodGod, who keepethkeepeth covenant and mercymercy with them that lovelove him and keepkeep his commandmentscommandments to a thousandthousand generationsgenerations:

¹⁰ And repayethrepayeth them that hatehate him to their faceface, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hatethhateth him, he will repayrepay him to his faceface.

¹¹ Thou shalt therefore keep the commandmentskeep the commandments, and the statutesstatutes, and the judgmentsjudgments, which I commandcommand thee this dayday, to do them.

¹² Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearkenhearken to these judgmentsjudgments, and keepkeep, and do them, that the LORDthe LORD thy GodGod will keepkeep to thee the covenant and the mercymercy which he sworeswore to thy fathersfathers:

¹³ And he will lovelove thee, and blessbless thee, and multiplymultiply thee: he will also blessbless thy children, and the fruitfruit of thy land, thy corncorn, and thy wine, and thy oil, the increaseincrease of thy kine, and the flocksflocks of thy sheepsheep, in the land which he sworeswore to thy fathersfathers to givegive thee.

¹⁴ Thou shalt be blessedblessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barrenbarren among you, or among your cattle.

¹⁵ And the LORDthe LORD will take away from thee all sicknesssickness, and will putput none of the evilevil diseases of EgyptEgypt (which thou knowest) upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hatehate thee.

¹⁶ And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORDthe LORD thy GodGod shall deliver to thee; thy eyeeye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serveserve their godsgods; for that will be a snare to thee.

¹⁷ If thou shalt saysay in thy heart, These nationsnations are more than I, how can I dispossess them?

¹⁸ Thou shalt not be afraidafraid of them: but shalt wellwell rememberremember what the LORDthe LORD thy GodGod did to PharaohPharaoh, and to all EgyptEgypt;

¹⁹ The greatgreat temptations which thy eyeseyes sawsaw, and the signssigns, and the wonders, and the mightymighty handhand, and the out-stretched armarm, by which the LORDthe LORD thy GodGod brought thee out: so shall the LORDthe LORD thy GodGod do to all the people of whom thou art afraid.

²⁰ Moreover, the LORDthe LORD thy GodGod will sendsend the hornethornet among them, until they that are left, and hidehide themselves from thee, shall be destroyed.

²¹ Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORDthe LORD thy GodGod is among you, a mightymighty GodGod and terrible.

²² And the LORDthe LORD thy GodGod will drive out those nationsnations beforebefore thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the fieldfield increaseincrease upon thee.

²³ But the LORDthe LORD thy GodGod shall deliver them to thee, and shall destroy them with a mightymighty destruction, until they are destroyed.

²⁴ And he shall deliver their kingskings into thy handhand, and thou shalt destroy their namename from underunder heavenheaven: there shall no manman be able to standstand beforebefore thee, until thou shalt have destroyed them.

²⁵ The graven imagesimages of their godsgods shall ye burn with firefire: thou shalt not desire the silversilver or goldgold that is on them, nor take it to thee, lest thou shouldst be snared in it: for it is an abomination to the LORDthe LORD thy GodGod.

²⁶ Neither shalt thou bringbring an abomination into thy househouse, lest thou shouldst be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.