7 When the LORD thy God shall
bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast
out many nations before thee, 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 thou; 2 And
when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them,
and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew
mercy unto them: 3 Neither
shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto
his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. 4 For
they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other
gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy
thee suddenly. 5 But
thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down
their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with
fire. 6 For
thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen
thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon
the face of the earth. 7 The
LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more
in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: 8 But
because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he
had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty
hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh
king of Egypt. 9 Know
therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth
covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to
a thousand generations; 10 And
repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not
be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face. 11 Thou
shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments,
which I command thee this day, to do them. 12 Wherefore
it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do
them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy
which he sware unto thy fathers:
13
And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless
the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine,
and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in
the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 14 Thou
shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren
among you, or among your cattle. 15 And
the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the
evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them
upon all them that hate thee. 16 And
thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee;
thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods;
for that will be a snare unto thee. 17 If
thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I
dispossess them? 18 Thou
shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God
did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt; 19 The
great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders,
and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God
brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom
thou art afraid. 20 Moreover
the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left,
and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed. 21 Thou
shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty
God and terrible. 22 And
the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little:
thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase
upon thee. 23 But
the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with
a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed. 24 And
he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their
name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee,
until thou have destroyed them. 25 The
graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire
the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be
snared therin: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God. 26 Neither
shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed
thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly
abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.