Deuteronomy 7

Revised Geneva Translation

7 “When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land to which you go to possess, and shall root out many 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 mightier than you—

² “and the LORD your God shall give them before you, then you shall strike them. You shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them or have compassion on them.

³ “Nor shall you make marriages with them or give your daughter to his son or take his daughter to your son.

⁴ ‘For they will cause your son to turn away from Me, and to serve other gods.’ Then the wrath of the LORD will grow hot against you and destroy you suddenly.

⁵ “But you shall deal with them like this: You shall overthrow their altars and break down their pillars. And you shall cut down their groves and burn their graven images with fire.

⁶ “For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a precious people to Himself, above all people who are upon the Earth.

⁷ “The LORD did not set His love upon you or choose you because you were more in number than any people (for you were the fewest of all people)

⁸ “but because the LORD loved you and because He would keep the oath which He had sworn to your fathers. The LORD has brought you out by a mighty Hand and delivered you out of the house of bondage from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt,

⁹ “so that you may know that the LORD your God, He is God. He is the faithful God Who keeps Covenant and mercy to those who love Him and keep His Commandments, to a thousand generations.

¹⁰ “And He rewards those who hate Him to their face, to bring them to destruction. He will not hesitate to reward him who hates Him, to his face.

¹¹ “Therefore, keep the Commandments and the Ordinances and the Laws which I command you this day, to do them.

¹² “For if you hear these Laws, and observe and do them, then the LORD your God shall keep the Covenant with you, and the mercy, which He swore to your fathers.

¹³ “And He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your corn and your wine, your oil, the increase of your cattle and the flocks of your sheep, in the land which He swore to give to your fathers.

¹⁴ “You shall be blessed above all people. There shall be neither male nor female barren among you, nor among your cattle.

¹⁵ “Moreover, the LORD will take away all infirmities from you, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt (which you know) upon you. But He will send them upon all who hate you.

¹⁶ “You shall, therefore, consume all people which the LORD your God shall give you. Your eye shall not spare them, nor shall you serve their gods. For that shall be your destruction.

¹⁷ “If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are more than me. How can I cast them out?’

¹⁸ “You shall not fear them. Remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.

¹⁹ “The great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs and wonders, and the mighty Hand and outstretched Arm, whereby the LORD your God brought you out. So shall the LORD your God do to all the people whose face you fear.

²⁰ “Moreover, the LORD your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left (and hiding themselves from you) are destroyed.

²¹ “You shall not fear them. For the LORD your God is among you, a God mighty and revered.

²² “And the LORD your God will root out these nations before you, little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the wild animals increase upon you.

²³ “But the LORD your God shall give them before you, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they are brought to nothing.

²⁴ “And He shall deliver their kings into your hand. And you shall destroy their name from under Heaven. There shall be no man able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.

²⁵ “You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, or take it for yourself, lest you are ensnared by it. For it is an abomination before the LORD your God.

²⁶ “Therefore, do not bring such an abomination into your house, lest you be accursed, like it is. Utterly abhor it and count it most abominable. For it is accursed.”