1When Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it , and shall cast out many nations before thee , 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 thou ; 2and when Jehovah thy God shall deliver them up before thee , and thou shalt smite them ; then thou shalt utterly destroy them : thou shalt make no covenant with them , nor show mercy unto them ; 3neither shalt thou make marriages with them ; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son , nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son . 4For he will turn away thy son from following me , that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of Jehovah be kindled against you , and he will destroy thee quickly . 5But thus shall ye deal with them : ye shall break down their altars , and dash in pieces their pillars , and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire. 6For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God : Jehovah thy God hath chosen thee to be a people for his own possession , above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth. 7Jehovah 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 peoples : 8but because Jehovah loveth you , and because he would keep the oath which he sware unto your fathers, hath Jehovah brought you out with a mighty hand , and redeemed you out of the house of bondage , from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt .
The Call to Purity
9Know therefore that Jehovah thy God , he is God , the faithful God , who keepeth covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations , 10and 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 . 11Thou shalt therefore keep the commandment , and the statutes , and the ordinances , which I command thee this day , to do them . 12And it shall come to pass , because ye hearken to these ordinances , and keep and do them , that Jehovah thy God will keep with thee the covenant and the lovingkindness which he sware unto thy fathers: 13and he will love thee , and bless thee , and multiply thee ; he will also bless the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy ground, thy grain and thy new wine and thine oil , the increase of thy cattle and the young of thy flock , in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee . 14Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples : there shall not be male or female barren among you , or among your cattle. 15And Jehovah will take away from thee all sickness ; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt , which thou knowest , will he put upon thee , but will lay them upon all them that hate thee . 16And thou shalt consume all the peoples that Jehovah thy God shall deliver unto thee ; thine eye shall not pity them : neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee .
God's Promises and Blessings
17If thou shalt say in thy heart , These nations are more than I ; how can I dispossess them ? 18thou shalt not be afraid of them : thou shalt well remember what Jehovah thy God did unto Pharaoh , and unto all Egypt ; 19the great trials which thine eyes saw , and the signs, and the wonders , and the mighty hand , and the outstretched arm , whereby Jehovah thy God brought thee out : so shall Jehovah thy God do unto all the peoples of whom thou art afraid . 20Moreover Jehovah thy God will send the hornet among them , until they that are left , and hide themselves , perish from before thee . 21Thou shalt not be affrighted at them ; for Jehovah thy God is in the midst of thee , a great God and a terrible . 22And Jehovah thy God will cast 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 . 23But Jehovah thy God will deliver them up before thee , and will discomfit them with a great discomfiture , until they be destroyed . 24And he will deliver their kings into thy hand , and thou shalt make their name to perish from under heaven : there shall no man be able to stand before thee , until thou have destroyed them . 25The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver or the gold that is on them , nor take it unto thee , lest thou be snared therein; for it is an abomination to Jehovah thy God . 26And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house , and become a devoted thing like unto it : thou shalt utterly detest it , and thou shalt utterly abhor it ; for it is a devoted thing .