Deuteronomy:7:1-9
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When the LORD your God brings you into the land which you go 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 the LORD your God delivers them over to you ,
you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them .
You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to 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 ;
so the anger of the LORD will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly .
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But thus you shall deal with them :
you shall destroy their altars ,
and break down their sacred pillars ,
and cut down their wooden images ,
and burn their carved images with fire .
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For you are a holy people to the LORD your God ;
the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself ,
a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth .
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The LORD did not set His love on 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 the LORD loves you ,
and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers ,
the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand ,
and redeemed you from the house of bondage ,
from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt .
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Therefore know that the LORD your God ,
He is God ,
the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments ;
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