Deuteronomy:7

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bbe @Deuteronomy:7:1 @When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going , which is to be your heritage , and has sent out the nations before you , the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites , seven nations greater and stronger than you ; bbe @Deuteronomy:7:2 @And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them , give them up to complete destruction : make no agreement with them , and have no mercy on them : bbe @Deuteronomy:7:3 @Do not take wives or husbands from among them ; do not give your daughters to their sons , or take their daughters for your sons . bbe @Deuteronomy:7:4 @For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods : and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly . bbe @Deuteronomy:7:5 @But this is what you are to do to them : their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken , and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire . bbe @Deuteronomy:7:6 @For you are a holy people to the Lord your God : marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth . bbe @Deuteronomy:7:7 @The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people ; for you were the smallest of the nations : bbe @Deuteronomy:7:8 @But because of his love for you , and in order to keep his oath to your fathers , the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand , making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh , king of Egypt . bbe @Deuteronomy:7:9 @Be certain , then , that the Lord your God is God ; whose faith and mercy are unchanging , who keeps his word through a thousand generations to those who have love for him and keep his laws ; bbe @Deuteronomy:7:10 @Rewarding his haters to their face with destruction ; he will have no mercy on his hater , but will give him open punishment . bbe @Deuteronomy:7:11 @So keep the orders and the laws and the decisions which I give you today and do them . bbe @Deuteronomy:7:12 @And it will be , that if you give attention to these decisions and keep and do them , then the Lord will keep his agreement with you and his mercy , as he said in his oath to your fathers . bbe @Deuteronomy:7:13 @And he will give you his love , blessing you and increasing you : he will send his blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land , your grain and your wine and your oil , the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock , in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give you . bbe @Deuteronomy:7:14 @You will have greater blessings than any other people : no male or female among you or among your cattle will be without offspring . bbe @Deuteronomy:7:15 @And the Lord will take away from you all disease , and will not put on you any of the evil diseases of Egypt which you have seen , but will put them on your haters . bbe @Deuteronomy:7:16 @And you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives into your hands ; have no pity on them , and do not give worship to their gods ; for that will be a cause of sin to you bbe @Deuteronomy:7:17 @If you say in your hearts , These nations are greater in number than we are : how are we to take their land from them ? bbe @Deuteronomy:7:18 @Have no fear of them , but keep well in mind what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt ; bbe @Deuteronomy:7:19 @The great punishments which your eyes saw , and the signs and the wonders and the strong hand and the stretched-out arm , by which the Lord your God took you out : so will the Lord your God do to all the peoples who are the cause of your fears . bbe @Deuteronomy:7:20 @And the Lord will send a hornet among them , till all the rest who have kept themselves safe from you in secret places have been cut off . bbe @Deuteronomy:7:21 @Have no fear of them : for the Lord your God is with you , a great God greatly to be feared . bbe @Deuteronomy:7:22 @The Lord your God will send out the nations before you little by little ; they are not to be rooted out quickly , for fear that the beasts of the field may be increased overmuch against you . bbe @Deuteronomy:7:23 @But the Lord your God will give them up into your hands , overpowering them till their destruction is complete . bbe @Deuteronomy:7:24 @He will give their kings into your hands , and you will put their names out of existence under heaven ; there is not one of them who will not give way before you , till their destruction is complete . bbe @Deuteronomy:7:25 @The images of their gods are to be burned with fire : have no desire for the gold and silver on them , and do not take it for yourselves , for it will be a danger to you : it is a thing disgusting to the Lord your God : bbe @Deuteronomy:7:26 @And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house , and so become cursed with its curse : but keep yourselves from it , turning from it with fear and hate , for it is a cursed thing .

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