Deuteronomy:7
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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 ;
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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 :
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 :
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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 .
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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 ;
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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 .
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Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments ,
and the statutes ,
and the judgments ,
which I command thee this day ,
to do them .
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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 :
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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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Thou shalt be blessed above all people :
there shall not be male or female barren among you ,
or among your cattle .
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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 .
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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 .
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If thou shalt say in thine heart ,
These nations are more than I ;
how can I dispossess them ?
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Thou shalt not be afraid of them :
but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh ,
and unto all Egypt ;
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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 .
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Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them ,
until they that are left ,
and hide themselves from thee ,
be destroyed .
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Thou shalt not be affrighted at them :
for the LORD thy God is among you ,
a mighty God and terrible .
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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 .
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But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee ,
and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction ,
until they be destroyed .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .