Deuteronomy:7:1-26

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* When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it , and cast out many nations before thee , the Hittites , and the Girgashites , and the Emorites , and the Canaanites , and the Perizzites , and the Hivites , and the Jebusites , seven nations , greater in number and mightier than thou ; * And when the Lord thy God shall give them up before thee , and thou dost smite them : thou shalt utterly destroy them ; thou shalt not make any covenant with them , nor show mercy unto them . * Neither shalt thou make marriages with them ; thy daughters shalt thou not give unto his son , and his daughter shalt thou not take unto thy son . * For he would turn away thy son from following me , so that they might serve other gods ; and the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you , and he would destroy thee speedily . * But thus shall ye do unto them : their altars shall ye pull down , and their statues shall ye break , and their groves shall ye cut down , and their graven images shall ye burn with fire . * For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God ; of thee the Lord thy God hath made choice to be unto himself a special people , above all the nations that are upon the face of the earth . * Not because ye are more in number than all the nations , did the Lord desire you and make choice of you ; for ye are the fewest of all the nations ; * But on account of the love of the Lord for you , and because he keepeth the oath which he hath sworn unto your fathers , hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand , and redeemed you out of the house of bond –men , out of the hand of Pharaoh the king of Egypt . * Know then that the Eternal thy God , is the God , the faithful God , who keepeth the covenant and the mercy with those that love him and with those that keep his commandments to the thousandth generation ; * And repayeth those that hate him to their face , to destroy them ; he will not delay to him that hateth him , he will repay him to his face . * Therefore shalt thou keep the commandment , and the statutes , and the ordinances , which I command thee this day , to do them . * And it shall come to pass in reward for that ye will hearken to these ordinances , and keep , and do them , that the Lord thy God will keep unto thee the covenant and the kindness which he hath sworn unto thy fathers : * And he will love thee , and bless thee , and multiply thee ; and he will bless the fruit of thy womb , and the fruit of thy land , thy corn , and thy wine , and thy oil , the increase of thy cattle , and the young of thy flocks , in the land which he hath sworn unto thy fathers to give unto thee . * Blessed shalt thou be above all the nations ; there shall not be a barren male or female among thee , nor among thy cattle . * And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness ; and all the evil diseases of Egypt , which thou knowest , will he not put upon thee ; but he will lay them upon all those that hate thee . * And thou shalt consume all the nations which the Lord thy God giveth unto thee ; thy eye shall not look with pity upon them : and thou shalt not serve their gods ; for that would be a snare unto thee . * If thou shouldst say in thy heart , These nations are more numerous than I : how shall I be able to dispossess them ? * Thou shalt not be afraid of them ; thou shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh , and unto all Egypt ; * The great proofs which thy eyes have seen , and the signs , and the wonders , and the mighty hand , and the outstretched arm , whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out : in this wise will the Lord thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid . * Moreover the hornet will the Lord thy God send out against them , until they that are left , and hide themselves from thee , be destroyed . * Thou shalt not be affrighted at them ; for the Lord thy God is in the midst of thee , a mighty and terrible God . * And the Lord thy God will chase out these nations before thee , little by little : thou shalt not be able to make an end of them speedily , lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee . * And the Lord thy God will give them up before thee , and he will bring among them a mighty confusion , until they be destroyed . * And he will give their kings into thy hand , and thou shalt destroy their name from under the heavens : no man shall be able to stand up before thee , until thou have destroyed them . * The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire : thou shalt not covet the silver or gold that is on them , so that thou wouldst take it unto thyself , lest thou be ensnared thereby ; for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God . * And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house , lest thou become accursed like it : thou shalt utterly detest it , and thou shalt utterly abhor it ; for it is accursed .

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