Deuteronomy 7

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Drive Out the Nations

¹When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—

¹When YHWH your God brings you into the land that you are going in to possess, and He has 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—

²and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction.^a Make no treaty^b with them and show them no mercy.

²and YHWH your God delivers them over to you, then you shall strike them down—you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall not make a covenant with them and you shall not show mercy to them.

³Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

³And you shall not join in marriage with them; your daughter you shall not give to their son, and their daughter you shall not take for your son.

⁴because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.

⁴For they will turn away your sons from following Me, and they will serve other gods; and the anger of YHWH will be kindled against you, and He will destroy you swiftly.

⁵Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.

⁵But rather thus you shall deal with them: Their altars you shall break down, and their pillars you shall smash, and their Asherah poles you shall cut down, and their carved images you shall burn with the fire.

⁶For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.

⁶For a holy people you are to YHWH your God; YHWH your God has chosen you to be for Himself a special treasure, a people above all the peoples that are on the face of the earth.

⁷The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

⁷Not because you were more numerous than any other of the peoples did YHWH set His love on you and choose you; for you were the least of all the peoples,

⁸But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

⁸but it is from the love of YHWH for you and from His keeping of the oath that He swore to your fathers, that YHWH has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

⁹Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.

⁹And you shall know that YHWH your God, He is God, the faithful God, keeping the covenant of loving devotion for those loving Him and keeping His commandments for a thousand generations.

¹⁰But those who hate Him He repays to their faces with destruction; He will not hesitate to repay to his face the one who hates Him.

¹⁰And He repays those who hate Him to their faces, to destroy them. He delays not to him who hates Him—to his face He will repay him.

¹¹So keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances that I am giving you to follow this day.

¹¹And you shall keep the commandment and the statutes and the ordinances that I command you today to do.

The Promises of God

¹²If you listen to these ordinances and keep them carefully, then the LORD your God will keep His covenant and the loving devotion that He swore to your fathers.

¹²And it shall come to pass, because you listen to these ordinances and keep and do them, that YHWH your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving devotion that He swore to your fathers.

¹³He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you.

¹³And He has loved you and blessed you and multiplied you, and He has blessed the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle, and the offspring of your flock in the land that He swore to your fathers to give to you.

¹⁴You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock.

¹⁴Blessed you shall be above all peoples; there shall not be among you a barren man or barren woman—or among your livestock.

¹⁵And the LORD will remove from you all sickness. He will not lay upon you any of the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but He will inflict them on all who hate you.

¹⁵And YHWH has taken away from you all sickness, and all the terrible diseases of Egypt that you have known He does not put on you, and He has put them on all those hating you.

¹⁶You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

¹⁶And you shall destroy all the peoples whom YHWH your God will deliver over to you. Your eye shall not have pity on them, nor shall you serve their gods, for it is a snare to you.

¹⁷You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?”

¹⁷If you should say in your heart, “These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?”

¹⁸But do not be afraid of them. Be sure to remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt:

¹⁸You shall not be afraid of them; you must surely remember what YHWH your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:

¹⁹the great trials that you saw, the signs and wonders, and the mighty hand and outstretched arm by which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.

¹⁹The great trials that your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which YHWH your God brought you out. So shall do YHWH your God to all the peoples of whom you are afraid, before their faces.

²⁰Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet against them until even the survivors hiding from you have perished.

²⁰Moreover, YHWH your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left and who hide themselves from you have perished.

²¹Do not be terrified by them, for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God.

²¹You shall not be terrified of them, for YHWH your God is among you—a God great and awesome.

²²The LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be enabled to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals would multiply around you.

²²And YHWH your God has cast out these nations before you little by little; you are not able to destroy them at once, lest the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.

²³But the LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.

²³And YHWH your God will deliver them over to you, and He will confuse them with great confusion until they are destroyed.

²⁴He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them.

²⁴And He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you will destroy their name from under the heavens; no man shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.

²⁵You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God.

²⁵The carved images of their gods you shall burn with the fire; you shall not covet the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it; for it is an abomination to YHWH your God.

²⁶And you must not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction.

²⁶And you shall not bring an abomination into your house and become devoted to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest it and you shall utterly abhor it, for it is devoted to destruction.