Deut 7
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When YHWH your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and shall
cast out many nations before you, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite,
and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations
greater and mightier than you;
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and when YHWH your God shall deliver them up before you, and you shall smite them;
then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show
mercy to them;
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neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his
son, nor his daughter shall you take to your son.
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For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods:
so will the anger of YHWH be kindled against you, and he will destroy you quickly.
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But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars, and dash in
pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with
fire.
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For you are a holy people to YHWH your God: YHWH your God has chosen you to be a people
for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
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YHWH did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number
than any people; for you were the few of all peoples:
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but because YHWH loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he swore to your
fathers, has YHWH brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the
house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
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Know therefore that YHWH your God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant
and lovingkindness with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand
generations,
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and repays them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack
to him whom hates him, he will repay him to his face.
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You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which
I command you this day, to do them.
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And it shall come to pass, because you hearken to these ordinances, and keep and do
them, that YHWH your God will keep with you the covenant and the lovingkindness which
he swore to your fathers:
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and he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit
of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new 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.
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You shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among
you, or among your cattle.
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And YHWH will take away from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt,
which you know, will he put upon you, but will lay them upon all them that hate you.
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And you shall consume all the peoples that YHWH your God shall deliver to you; your
eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare
to you.
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If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess
them?
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you shall not be afraid of them: you shall well remember what YHWH your God did to
Pharaoh, and to all Egypt;
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the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty
hand, and the outstretched arm, whereby YHWH your God brought you out: so shall YHWH
your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
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Moreover YHWH your God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left,
and hide themselves, perish from before you.
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You shall not be frightened at them; for YHWH your God is in the midst of you, a great
God and a terrible.
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And YHWH your God will cast 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.
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But YHWH your God will deliver them up before you, and will discomfit them with a
great discomfiture, until they be destroyed.
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And he will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name to perish
from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before you, until you have
destroyed them.
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The graven images of their gods shall you burn with fire: you shall not covet the
silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it to you, lest you be snared therein;
for it is an abomination to YHWH your God.
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And you shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become a devoted thing
like to it: you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is
a devoted thing.