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When Jehovah your God brings you into the land which you are going in to possess ,
and has cast out many 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 mightier than you ,
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and when Jehovah your God has delivered them over to you ,
you shall strike them and destroy to exterminate them .
You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy unto them .
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Nor shall you make marriages with them .
You shall not give your daughter to their son ,
nor take their daughter for your son .
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For they will turn your sons away from following Me ,
to serve other gods ;
and the anger of Jehovah will burn against you and quickly destroy you .
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But thus you shall deal with them :
you shall break down their altars ,
and shatter their pillars ,
and chop down their groves ,
and burn their graven images with fire .
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For you are a holy people unto Jehovah your God ;
Jehovah your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself ,
a special treasure out of all the peoples upon the face of the earth .
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Jehovah did not set His love upon you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people ,
for you were the least of all peoples ;
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but because Jehovah loves you ,
and to keep the oath which He has sworn to your fathers ,
Jehovah has brought you out with a mighty hand ,
and redeemed you out of the house of bondage ,
from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt .
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Therefore know that Jehovah your God ,
He is God ,
the faithful Mighty God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments ;
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and He repays those who hate Him ,
to their face ,
to destroy them .
He will not be slack with him who hates Him ;
He will repay him to his face .
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Therefore you shall keep the commandments ,
the statutes ,
and the judgments which I am commanding you today ,
to do them .
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Then it shall come to pass ,
because you obey these judgments ,
and keep and do them ,
that Jehovah your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He has sworn to your fathers .
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And He will love you and bless you and multiply you ;
He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land ,
your grain and your new wine and your oil ,
the offspring of your cattle and the increase of your flock ,
in the land of which He has sworn to your fathers to give you .
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You shall be blessed above all peoples ;
there shall not be sterility or barrenness among you or among your livestock .
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And Jehovah will take away from you all sickness ,
and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known ,
but will lay them on all those who hate you .
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And you shall destroy all the peoples whom Jehovah your God is delivering over to you ;
your eye shall have no pity on them ;
nor shall you serve their gods ,
for that would be a snare to you .
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If you should think in your heart ,
These nations are greater than I ;
how can I dispossess them ?
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you shall not be afraid of them ,
but you shall call to mind to remember what Jehovah your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt :
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the great trials which your eyes have seen ,
the signs and the wonders ,
the mighty hand and the outstretched arm ,
by which Jehovah your God has brought you out .
Thus shall Jehovah your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid .
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Moreover Jehovah your God will send the hornet among them ,
for those who are left ,
who hide themselves from your face ,
to perish .
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You shall not be terrified of them ;
for Jehovah your God ,
the great and awesome Mighty God ,
is among you .
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And Jehovah your God will clear away those nations before you little by little ;
you shall not prevail to destroy them all at once ,
lest the beasts of the field become too numerous for you .
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But Jehovah your God will deliver them over to you ,
and will defeat them with great confusion to annihilate them .
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And He will deliver their kings into your hand ,
and you shall destroy their name from under the heavens ;
no one shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them .
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You shall burn the graven images of their gods with fire ;
you shall not covet the silver or gold that is on them ,
nor take it for yourselves ,
lest you be snared by it ;
for it is an abomination to Jehovah your God .
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Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house ,
lest you be utterly destroyed like it .
You shall detest it unto abomination and loathe it unto abhorrence ,
for it is a prohibited thing .