^{1 Ref} When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you;

^{2 Ref} And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:

^{3 Ref} Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.

^{4 Ref} For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly.

^{5 Ref} But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire.

^{6 Ref} For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.

^{7 Ref} The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations:

^{8 Ref} But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.

^{9 Ref} Be certain, then, that the Lord your God is God; whose faith and mercy are unchanging, who keeps his word through a thousand generations to those who have love for him and keep his laws;

^{10 Ref} Rewarding his haters to their face with destruction; he will have no mercy on his hater, but will give him open punishment.

^{11 Ref} So keep the orders and the laws and the decisions which I give you today and do them.

^{12 Ref} And it will be, that if you give attention to these decisions and keep and do them, then the Lord will keep his agreement with you and his mercy, as he said in his oath to your fathers.

^{13 Ref} And he will give you his love, blessing you and increasing you: he will send his blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give you.

^{14 Ref} You will have greater blessings than any other people: no male or female among you or among your cattle will be without offspring.

^{15 Ref} And the Lord will take away from you all disease, and will not put on you any of the evil diseases of Egypt which you have seen, but will put them on your haters.

^{16 Ref} And you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives into your hands; have no pity on them, and do not give worship to their gods; for that will be a cause of sin to you.

^{17 Ref} If you say in your hearts, These nations are greater in number than we are: how are we to take their land from them?

^{18 Ref} Have no fear of them, but keep well in mind what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt;

^{19 Ref} The great punishments which your eyes saw, and the signs and the wonders and the strong hand and the stretched-out arm, by which the Lord your God took you out: so will the Lord your God do to all the peoples who are the cause of your fears.

^{20 Ref} And the Lord will send a hornet among them, till all the rest who have kept themselves safe from you in secret places have been cut off.

^{21 Ref} Have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, a great God greatly to be feared.

^{22 Ref} The Lord your God will send out the nations before you little by little; they are not to be rooted out quickly, for fear that the beasts of the field may be increased overmuch against you.

^{23 Ref} But the Lord your God will give them up into your hands, overpowering them till their destruction is complete.

^{24 Ref} He will give their kings into your hands, and you will put their names out of existence under heaven; there is not one of them who will not give way before you, till their destruction is complete.

^{25 Ref} The images of their gods are to be burned with fire: have no desire for the gold and silver on them, and do not take it for yourselves, for it will be a danger to you: it is a thing disgusting to the Lord your God:

^{26 Ref} And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.

^{1 Ref} When Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, 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 you;

^{2 Ref} and when Yahweh your God shall deliver them up before you, and you shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;

^{3 Ref} neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall you take to your son.

^{4 Ref} For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he will destroy you quickly.

^{5 Ref} But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.

^{6 Ref} 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 all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

^{7 Ref} 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 Ref} but because Yahweh loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, has Yahweh brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

^{9 Ref} Know therefore that Yahweh your God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

^{10 Ref} and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him who hates him, he will repay him to his face.

^{11 Ref} You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.

^{12 Ref} 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 Ref} and he will love you, and 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 cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.

^{14 Ref} You shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

^{15 Ref} Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, will he put on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you.

^{16 Ref} You shall consume all the peoples who Yahweh your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you.

^{17 Ref} If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

^{18 Ref} you shall not be afraid of them: you shall well remember what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt;

^{19 Ref} the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out: so shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.

^{20 Ref} Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.

^{21 Ref} You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is in the midst of you, a great and awesome God.

^{22 Ref} Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.

^{23 Ref} But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they be destroyed.

^{24 Ref} He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name to perish from under the sky: there shall no man be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.

^{25 Ref} The engraved images of their gods shall you burn with fire: you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it to you, lest you be snared therein; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

^{26 Ref} You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become a devoted thing like it: you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.

^{1 Ref} `When Jehovah thy God doth bring thee in unto the land whither thou art going in to possess it, and He hath cast out many nations from thy presence, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and mighty than thou,

^{2 Ref} and Jehovah thy God hath given them before thee, and thou hast smitten them -- thou dost utterly devote them -- thou dost not make with them a covenant, nor dost thou favour them.

^{3 Ref} `And thou dost not join in marriage with them; thy daughter thou dost not give to his son, and his daughter thou dost not take to thy son,

^{4 Ref} for he doth turn aside thy son from after Me, and they have served other gods, and the anger of Jehovah hath burned against you, and hath destroyed thee hastily.

^{5 Ref} `But thus thou dost to them: their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and their shrines ye cut down, and their graven images ye burn with fire;

^{6 Ref} for a holy people `art' thou to Jehovah thy God; on thee hath Jehovah thy God fixed, to be to Him for a peculiar people, out of all the peoples who `are' on the face of the ground.

^{7 Ref} `Not because of your being more numerous than any of the peoples hath Jehovah delighted in you, and fixeth on you, for ye `are' the least of all the peoples,

^{8 Ref} but because of Jehovah's loving you, and because of His keeping the oath which He hath sworn to your fathers, hath Jehovah brought you out by a strong hand, and doth ransom you from a house of servants, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

^{9 Ref} `And thou hast known that Jehovah thy God He `is' God, the faithful God, keeping the covenant, and the kindness, to those loving Him, and to those keeping His commands -- to a thousand generations,

^{10 Ref} and repaying to those hating Him, unto their face, to destroy them; He delayeth not to him who is hating Him -- unto his face, He repayeth to him --

^{11 Ref} and thou hast kept the command, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I am commanding thee to-day to do them.

^{12 Ref} `And it hath been, because ye hear these judgments, and have kept, and done them, that Jehovah thy God hath kept to thee the covenant and the kindness which He hath sworn to thy fathers,

^{13 Ref} and hath loved thee, and blessed thee, and multiplied thee, and hath blessed the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, thy corn, and thy new wine, and thine oil, the increase of thine oxen, and the wealth of thy flock, on the ground which He hath sworn to thy fathers to give to thee.

^{14 Ref} `Blessed art thou above all the peoples, there is not in thee a barren man or a barren woman -- nor among your cattle;

^{15 Ref} and Jehovah hath turned aside from thee every sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt (which thou hast known) doth He put on thee, and He hath put them on all hating thee.

^{16 Ref} `And thou hast consumed all the peoples whom Jehovah thy God is giving to thee; thine eye hath no pity on them, and thou dost not serve their gods, for a snare it `is' to thee.

^{17 Ref} `When thou sayest in thine heart, These nations `are' more numerous than I, how am I able to dispossess them? --

^{18 Ref} thou art not afraid of them; thou dost surely remember that which Jehovah thy God hath done to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt,

^{19 Ref} the great trials which thine eyes have seen, and the signs, and the wonders, and the strong hand, and the stretched-out arm, with which Jehovah thy God hath brought thee out; so doth Jehovah thy God to all the peoples of whose presence thou art afraid.

^{20 Ref} `And also the locust doth Jehovah thy God send among them, till the destruction of those who are left, and of those who are hidden from thy presence;

^{21 Ref} thou art not terrified by their presence, for Jehovah thy God `is' in thy midst, a God great and fearful.

^{22 Ref} `And Jehovah thy God hath cast out these nations from thy presence little `by' little, (thou art not able to consume them hastily, lest the beast of the field multiply against thee),

^{23 Ref} and Jehovah thy God hath given them before thee, and destroyed them -- a great destruction -- till their destruction;

^{24 Ref} and He hath given their kings into thy hand, and thou hast destroyed their name from under the heavens; no man doth station himself in thy presence till thou hast destroyed them.

^{25 Ref} `The graven images of their gods ye do burn with fire; thou dost not desire the silver and gold on them, nor hast thou taken `it' to thyself, lest thou be snared by it, for the abomination of Jehovah thy God it `is';

^{26 Ref} and thou dost not bring in an abomination unto thy house -- or thou hast been devoted like it; -- thou dost utterly detest it, and thou dost utterly abominate it; for it `is' devoted.