Deut 7
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And when the Lord your God shall bring you into the land, into which you go to possess
it, and shall remove great nations from before you, the Chettite, and Gergesite, and
Amorite, and Chananite, and Pherezite, and Evite, and Jebusite, seven nations more
numerous and stronger than you,
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and the Lord your God shall deliver them into your hands, then you shall smite them:
you shall utterly destroy them: you shall not make a covenant with them, neither shall
you pity them:
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neither shall you contract marriages with them: you shall not give your daughter to
his son, and you shall not take his daughter to your son.
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For he will draw away your son from me, and he will serve other gods; and the Lord
will be very angry with you, and will soon utterly destroy you.
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But thus shall you do to them; you shall destroy their altars, and shall break down
their pillars, and shall cut down their groves, and shall burn with fire the graven
images of their gods.
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For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; and the Lord your God chose you to
be to him a peculiar people beyond all nations that are upon the face of the earth.
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It was not because you are more numerous than all other nations that the Lord preferred
you, and the Lord made choice of you: for you are fewer in number than all other nations.
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But because the Lord loved you, and as keeping the oath which he swore to your fathers,
the Lord brought you out with a strong hand, and the Lord redeemed you from the house
of bondage, out of the hand of Pharao king of Egypt.
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You shall know therefore, that the Lord your God, he is God, a faithful God, who keeps
covenant and mercy for them that love him, and for those that keep his commandments
to a thousand generations,
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and who recompenses them that hate him to their face, to destroy them utterly; and
will not be slack with them that hate him: he will recompense them to their face.
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You shall keep therefore the commands, and the ordinances, and these judgements, which
I command you this day to do.
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And it shall come to pass when you shall have heard these ordinances, and shall have
kept and done them, that the Lord your God shall keep for you the covenant and the
mercy, which he swore to your fathers.
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And he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; and he will bless the off-spring
of your Gr. belly body, and the fruit of your land, your corn, and your wine, and your oil, the herds
of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep, on the land which the Lord swore to your
fathers to give to you.
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You shall be blessed beyond all nations; there shall not be among you an impotent
or barren one, Gr. and or among your cattle.
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And the Lord your God shall remove from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases
of Egypt, which you have seen, and all that you have known, will he lay upon you;
but he will lay them upon all that hate you.
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And you shall eat all the spoils of the nations which the Lord your God gives you;
your eye shall not spare them, and you shall not serve their gods; for this is an
offense to you.
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But if you should say in your heart, This nation is Gr. more greater than I, how shall I be able to destroy them utterly?
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you shall not fear them; you shall surely remember all that the Lord your God did
to Pharao and to all the Egyptians:
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the great temptations which your eyes have seen, those signs and great wonders, the
strong hand, and the high arm; how the Lord your God brought you forth: so the Lord
your God will do to all the nations, whom you fear in their presence.
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And the Lord your God shall send against them the hornets, until they that are left
and they that are hidden from you be utterly destroyed.
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You shall not be wounded before them, because the Lord your God in the midst of you
is a great and powerful God.
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And the Lord your God shall consume these nations before you by little and little:
you shall not be able to consume them speedily, lest the land become desert, and the
wild beasts of the field be multiplied against you.
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And the Lord your God shall deliver them into your hands, and you shall destroy them
with a great destruction, until you shall have utterly destroyed them.
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And he shall deliver their kings into your hands, and you shall destroy their name
from that place; none shall stand up in opposition before you, until you shall have
utterly destroyed them.
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You shall burn with fire the graven images of their gods: you shall not covet their
silver, neither shall you take to yourself gold from them, lest you should offend
thereby, because it is an abomination to the Lord your God.
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And you shall not bring an abomination into your house, so Gr. shall should you be an accursed thing like it; you shall utterly
hate it, and altogether
abominate it, because it is an accursed thing.