1When 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; 2And 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: 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 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 . 5But 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 . 6For 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 . 7The 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 : 8But 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 .
The Call to Purity
9Know 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 ; 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 commandments , and the statutes , and the judgments , which I command thee this day , to do them. 12Wherefore 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 : 13And 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. 14Thou shalt be blessed above all people : there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle . 15And 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. 16And 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.
God's Promises and Blessings
17If thou shalt say in thine heart , These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them? 18Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh , and unto all Egypt ; 19The 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 . 20Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left , and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed . 21Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible . 22And 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. 23But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee , and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction , until they be destroyed . 24And 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. 25The 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 . 26Neither 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 .