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Chapter 7 |
| 1 | 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 show mercy
unto them: |
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| 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. |
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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; |
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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. |
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11 | Thou shalt therefore
keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command
thee this day, to do them. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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| 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 therein: for it is an abomination to the
LORD thy God. |
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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. |
