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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; |
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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: |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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: |
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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. |
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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: |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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17 | If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than
I; how can I dispossess them? |
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18 | Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what
the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt; |
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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. |
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20 | Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them,
until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be
destroyed. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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