1 When Yahweh your God brings you
into the land where you go to possess it,
and casts out many nations before you—
the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the
Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and
the Jebusite—seven nations greater and
mightier than you;

2 and when Yahweh your God delivers
them up before you, and you strike them,
then you shall utterly destroy them. You
shall make no covenant with them, nor
show mercy to them.

3 You shall not make marriages with
them. You shall not give your daughter to
his son, nor shall you take his daughter for
your son.

4 For that would turn away your sons
from following me, that they may serve
other gods. So Yahweh’s anger would be
kindled against you, and he would destroy
you quickly.

5 But you shall deal with them like this:
you shall break down their altars, dash
their pillars in pieces, cut down their
Asherah poles, and burn their engraved
images with fire.

6 For you are a holy people to Yahweh
your God. Yahweh your God has chosen
you to be a people for his own possession,
above allpeoples who are onthe face ofthe
earth.

7 Yahweh didn’t set his love on you nor
choose you, because you were more in
number than any people; for you were the
fewest of all peoples;

8 but because Yahweh loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he
swore to your fathers, Yahwehhasbrought
you out with a mighty hand and redeemed
you out of the house of bondage, from the
hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

9 Know therefore that Yahweh your God
himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps
covenant and loving kindness to a thousand generations with those who love him
and keep his commandments,

10 andrepays those whohatehimto their
face, to destroy them. He will not be slack
to him who hates him. He will repay him
to his face.

11 You shall therefore keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances which I command you today, to do
them.

12 It shall happen, because you listen to
these ordinances and keep and do them,
that Yahweh your God will keep with
you the covenant and the loving kindness
which he swore to your fathers.

13 He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your
body and the fruit of your ground, your
grain and your new wine and your oil, the
increase of your livestock and the young of
your flock, in the land which he swore to
your fathers to give you.