[1] When Yahweh 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;
[2] and when Yahweh your God shall deliver them up before you, and you
shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no
covenant with them, nor show mercy to them; [3] 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. [4] For he will turn away your son
from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of
Yahweh be kindled against you, and he will destroy you quickly. [5] 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
engraved images with fire. [6] For you are a holy people to Yahweh your
God: Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession,
above all peoples who are on the face of the earth. [7] Yahweh didn`t set
his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any
people; for you were the fewest of all peoples: [8] but because Yahweh
loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he swore to your
fathers, has Yahweh brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you
out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. [9]
Know therefore that Yahweh your God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps
covenant and lovingkindness with them who love him and keep his
commandments to a thousand generations, [10] and repays those who hate him
to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him who hates him,
he will repay him to his face. [11] You shall therefore keep the
commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this
day, to do them. [12] It shall happen, because you listen to these
ordinances, and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you
the covenant and the lovingkindness which he swore to your fathers: [13]
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. [14] You
shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female
barren among you, or among your cattle. [15] Yahweh will take away from you
all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, will
he put on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you. [16] You shall
consume all the peoples who Yahweh 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. [17] If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more
than I; how can I dispossess them? [18] you shall not be afraid of them:
you shall well remember what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh, and to all
Egypt; [19] the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the
wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, whereby Yahweh your
God brought you out: so shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom
you are afraid. [20] Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among
them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before
you. [21] You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is in the
midst of you, a great and awesome God. [22] Yahweh your God will cast out
those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at
once, lest the animals of the field increase on you. [23] But Yahweh your
God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great
confusion, until they be destroyed. [24] He will deliver their kings into
your hand, and you shall make their name to perish from under the sky:
there shall no man be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed
them. [25] The engraved 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 Yahweh your God.
[26] You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become a
devoted thing like it: you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly
abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
