Deuteronomy 7

When God your God brings you into the land which you are going to there to possess it, then he will drive out many nations from your face, 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, \*

and God your God will give them to your face, and you shall strike them down, devoting, you shall devote them. Do not cut with them a covenant, and do not show them favor.

And do not arrange marriages with them. Do not give your daughter to his son, and you shall not take his daughter for your son. \*

For they will turn away your son from after me, and they will serve other gods. And the nose of God will burn against you, and he will destroy you quickly.

Thus you shall do to them: You shall break down their altars and smash their pillars and cut their Asherah poles to pieces and burn their idols in the fire. \*

For you are a sacred nation for God your God. God your God has chosen you to be a people for his possession, above all the peoples that are on the face of the earth. \*

God loved you and chose you, not {that} you were more numerous over all the nations, for you {were} the fewest of all the peoples,

but God loves you, and he kept the oath that he had sworn to your fathers. God has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slaves, from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. \*

And you shall know that God your God, he {is} God, the faithful God, who keeps covenants and faithfulness for a thousand generations with those who love him and keep his commandments,

and he repays those who hate him to his face, to destroy him. He will not delay with him who hates him; he will repay him to his face. \*

And you shall keep the commandments and the statutes and the ordinances that I command you today, to do them.

And it will be, on account of you listening to these ordinances and keeping and doing them, then God your God will keep for you the covenant and the faithfulness that he swore to your fathers.

And he will love you and bless you and multiply you. And he will bless the fruit of your womb 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 flocks, on the land that he swore to your fathers to give to you. \*

You will be blessed more than all the peoples. There will not be a barren male or a barren female among you or among your cattle.

And God will take away from you all sickness. And all of the evil diseases of Egypt that you have known, he will not put them on you, and he will set them on all those who hate you. \*

And you shall consume all the peoples whom God your God will give to you; your eye shall not pity them. And do not serve their gods, for it will be a snare for you. \*

If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are more numerous than I; how can I dispossess them?’—

do not be afraid of them. Remembering, you shall remember what God your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt,

the great trials that your eyes saw, and the signs and the wonders and the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which God your God brought you out. Thus God your God will do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid of their faces. \*

And also, God your God will send the hornet against them until those who are left and who hide themselves perish from your face.

Do not be frightened from their faces, for God your God {is} among you, a great and fearsome God.

And God your God will drive out those nations from your face little {by} little. You will not be able to finish them quickly, lest the animals of the field multiply against you. \*

And God your God will give them to your faces. And he will confuse them {with} great confusion, until they are destroyed.

And he will give their kings into your hand, and you will cause their name to perish from under the heavens. No man will stand against your face, until you have destroyed them. \*

You shall burn idols of their gods in fire, do not covet silver and gold on them and take {it} for yourself, lest you become trapped by it, for it {is} an abomination to God your God.

And do not bring an abomination to your house and you become a devoted thing like it. Detesting, you shall detest it, and abhorring, you shall abhor it, for it {is} a devoted thing. \*