^{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.