Deuteronomy 7

When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out many nations from before you, the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and stronger than you, and the LORD your God gives them over to you and you strike them, you shall devote them completely to destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show them no favor. You shall not intermarry with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son or take his daughter for your son, for he will turn your son away from following me, and they will serve other gods. Then the LORD’s anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you quickly. But this is what you shall do to them: tear down their altars, break their pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their carved images with fire. For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples on the face of the earth. The LORD did not set his love on you or choose you because you were more numerous than all the peoples, for you were the fewest of all the peoples. But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath he swore to your fathers, the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 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, and repays those who hate him to their faces, to destroy them. He does not delay toward one who hates him; he repays him to his face. You shall therefore keep the commandment, the statutes and the judgments, that I command you today, to do them. If you listen to these judgments, keep them, and do them, the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and steadfast love that he swore to your fathers. He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain, your new wine, your oil, the young of your cattle and the young of your flocks, on the land he swore to your fathers to give you. You shall be blessed above all peoples. No male or female among you or among your livestock shall be barren. The LORD will take away from you all sickness. None of the dreadful diseases of Egypt that you knew will he put upon you, but he will put them upon all who hate you. You shall devour all the peoples whom the LORD your God gives you. Your eye shall have no pity on them, and you shall not serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you. If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are more numerous than I am. How can I dispossess them?’ you shall not fear them. You shall surely remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt: the great trials your eyes saw, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which the LORD your God brought you out. So the LORD your God will do to all the peoples you fear. The LORD your God will also send hornets among them until those who remain and those who hide from you perish. You shall not be terrified before them, for the LORD your God is in your midst, a great and fearsome God. The LORD your God will drive out these nations from before you little by little. You will not be able to finish them off quickly, lest the wild animals of the field multiply against you. But the LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion until they are destroyed. He will give their kings into your hand, and you shall destroy their name from under heaven. No one shall stand before you until you have destroyed them. You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver and gold on them or take it for yourself, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the LORD your God. You shall not bring an abomination into your house and become devoted to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, for it is devoted to destruction.

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