rsv Deuteronomy:7:2-16
rsv@Deuteronomy:7:2 @ and when the LORD your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them; then you must utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, and show no mercy to them.
rsv@Deuteronomy:7:3 @ You shall not make marriages with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons.
rsv@Deuteronomy:7:4 @ For they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods; then the anger of the LORD would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.
rsv@Deuteronomy:7:5 @ But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Ashe'rim, and burn their graven images with fire.
rsv@Deuteronomy:7:6 @ "For you are a people holy to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth.
rsv@Deuteronomy:7:7 @ It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love upon you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples;
rsv@Deuteronomy:7:8 @ but it is because the LORD loves you, and is keeping the oath which he swore to your fathers, that 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.
rsv@Deuteronomy:7:9 @ Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
rsv@Deuteronomy:7:10 @ and requites to their face those who hate him, by destroying them; he will not be slack with him who hates him, he will requite him to his face.
rsv@Deuteronomy:7:11 @ You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day.
rsv@Deuteronomy:7:12 @ "And because you hearken to these ordinances, and keep and do them, the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love which he swore to your fathers to keep;
rsv@Deuteronomy:7:13 @ he will love you, bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.
rsv@Deuteronomy:7:14 @ You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
rsv@Deuteronomy:7:15 @ And the LORD will take away from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict upon you, but he will lay them upon all who hate you.
rsv@Deuteronomy:7:16 @ And you shall destroy all the peoples that the LORD your God will give over to you, your eye shall not pity them; neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.
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