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DEUTERONOMY ยท Chapter 7
7:1 When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land where you go
to possess it, 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;
7:2 And when the LORD your God shall deliver them before you; you shall
strike them, and utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with
them, nor show mercy unto them:
7:3 Neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall
not give unto his son, nor his daughter shall you take unto your son.
7:4 For they will turn away your son from following me, that they may
serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you,
and destroy you suddenly.
7:5 But thus shall all of you deal with them; all of you shall destroy
their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and
burn their graven images with fire.
7:6 For you are an holy people unto the LORD your God: the LORD your
God has chosen you to be a special people unto himself, above all people
that are upon the face of the earth.
7:7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because
all of you were more in number than any people; for all of you were the
few of all people:
7:8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath
which he had sworn unto your fathers, has 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.
7:9 Know therefore that the LORD your God, he is God, the faithful
God, which keeps covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his
commandments to a thousand generations;
7:10 And repays them that hate him to their face, to destroy them:
he will not be slack to him that hates him, he will repay him to his face.
7:11 You shall therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and
the judgments, which I command you this day, to do them.
7:12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if all of you hearken to these
judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD your God shall keep unto
you the covenant and the mercy which he swore unto your fathers:
7:13 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 corn,
and your wine, and your oil, the increase of your cattle, and the flocks
of your sheep, in the land which he swore unto your fathers to give you.
7:14 You shall be blessed above all people: there shall not be male
or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
7:15 And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and will put
none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, upon you; but will
lay them upon all them that hate you.
7:16 And you shall consume all the people which the LORD your God shall
deliver you; your eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shall you serve
their gods; for that will be a snare unto you.
7:17 If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I;
how can I dispossess them?
7:18 You shall not be afraid of them: but shall well remember what
the LORD your God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
7:19 The great temptations which your eyes saw, and the signs, and
the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the
LORD your God brought you out: so shall the LORD your God do unto all the
people of whom you are afraid.
7:20 Moreover the LORD your God will send the hornet among them, until
they that are left, and hide themselves from you, be destroyed.
7:21 You shall not be affrighted at them: for the LORD your God is
among you, a mighty God and terrible.
7:22 And the LORD your God will put out those nations before you by
little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the beasts of
the field increase upon you.
7:23 But the LORD your God shall deliver them unto you, and shall destroy
them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
7:24 And he shall deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall
destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand
before you, until you have destroyed them.
7:25 The graven images of their gods shall all of you burn with fire:
you shall not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto
you, lest you be snared therin: for it is an abomination to the LORD your
God.
7:26 Neither shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you
be a cursed thing like it: but you shall utterly detest it, and you shall
utterly detest it; for it is a cursed thing.
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