^{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.