| 1 When Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou
goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before thee, 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 thou; 2 and when Jehovah thy God shall deliver them up
before thee, and thou shalt smite them; then thou shalt utterly destroy them:
thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them; 3 neither
shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto
his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. 4 For he will turn
away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the
anger of Jehovah be kindled against you, and he will destroy thee quickly.
5 But thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall break down their altars, and
dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their
graven images with fire.
6 For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God: Jehovah thy God hath
chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are
upon the face of the earth. 7 Jehovah did not set his love upon you, nor
choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the
fewest of all peoples: 8 but because Jehovah loveth you, and because he
would keep the oath which he sware unto your fathers, hath Jehovah 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 Know therefore that Jehovah thy
God, he is God, the faithful God, who keepeth covenant and lovingkindness
with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
10 and repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will
not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the
ordinances, which I command thee this day, to do them.
12 And it shall come to pass, because ye hearken to these ordinances, and
keep and do them, that Jehovah thy God will keep with thee the covenant and
the lovingkindness which he sware unto thy fathers: 13 and he will love
thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; he will also bless the fruit of thy
body and the fruit of thy ground, thy grain and thy new wine and thine oil,
the increase of thy cattle and the young of thy flock, in the land which he
sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 14 Thou shalt be blessed above all
peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your
cattle. 15 And Jehovah will take away from thee all sickness; and none of
the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, will he put upon thee, but
will lay them upon all them that hate thee. 16 And thou shalt consume all
the peoples that Jehovah thy God shall deliver unto thee; thine eye shall not
pity them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto
thee.
17 If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations are more than I; how can
I dispossess them? 18 thou shalt not be afraid of them: thou shalt well
remember what Jehovah thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt; 19 the
great trials which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the
mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, whereby Jehovah thy God brought thee
out: so shall Jehovah thy God do unto all the peoples of whom thou art
afraid. 20 Moreover Jehovah thy God will send the hornet among them, until
they that are left, and hide themselves, perish from before thee. 21 Thou
shalt not be affrighted at them; for Jehovah thy God is in the midst of thee,
a great God and a terrible. 22 And Jehovah thy God will cast out those
nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at
once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee. 23 But Jehovah thy
God will deliver them up before thee, and will discomfit them with a great
discomfiture, until they be destroyed. 24 And he will deliver their kings
into thy hand, and thou shalt make their name to perish from under heaven:
there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed
them. 25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou
shalt not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it unto
thee, lest thou be snared therein; for it is an abomination to Jehovah thy
God. 26 And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house, and become
a devoted thing like unto it: thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt
utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
Genesis - Public
Domain
| |