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Deuteronomy, Chapter 7,  verses 1-11

1 Warnings
1 “When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away 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 stronger than you, 2 and when the LORD your God delivers them before you and youa Lit smitedefeat them, then you shallb Lit surely devote to the banutterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them. 3 Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give yourc Lit daughterdaughters tod Lit his sontheir sons, nor shall you takee Lit his daughtertheir daughters for yourf Lit sonsons. 4 Forg Lit hethey will turn yourh Lit sonsons away fromi Lit afterfollowing Me to serve other gods; then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you and He will quickly destroy you. 5 But thus you shall do to them: you shall tear down their altars, and smash their sacred pillars, and hew down theirj I.e. wooden symbols of a female deityAsherim, 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 people for Hisk Or special treasureown possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of thel Lit groundearth.
7 “The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but because the LORD loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your forefathers, the LORD brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house ofm Lit slavesslavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keepsn Lit theHis covenant ando Lit theHis lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments; 10 but repays those who hate Him top Lit his facetheir faces, to destroyq Lit himthem; He will not delayr Lit towith him who hates Him, He will repay him to his face. 11 Therefore, you shall keep the commandment and the statutes and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.

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