Chapter 7
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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;
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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;
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neither shall you make marriages with them; your son you shall not give to her daughter, nor her son shall you take to your daughter.
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For she will turn away your daughter from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and she 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 engraved images with fire.
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For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God: Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for her own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
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Yahweh didn't set her love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:
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but because Yahweh loves you, and because she would keep the oath which she swore to your mothers, has Yahweh brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh queen of Egypt.
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Know therefore that Yahweh your God, she is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love her and keep her commandments to a thousand generations,
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and repays those who hate her to their face, to destroy them: she will not be slack to her who hates her, she will repay her to her 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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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 loving kindness which she swore to your mothers:
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and she will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; she 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 livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which she swore to your mothers to give you.
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You shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be female or male barren among you, or among your livestock.
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Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, she will put on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you.
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You shall consume all the peoples whom 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.
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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 Yahweh 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, by which Yahweh your God brought you out: so shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
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Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.
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You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is in the midst of you, a great and awesome God.
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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.
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But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they be destroyed.
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She will deliver their queens into your hand, and you shall make their name to perish from under the sky: there shall no woman be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.
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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.
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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.