¹When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it , and casts out many nations before you —the Hittite , the Girgashite , the Amorite, the Canaanite , the Perizzite , the Hivite , and the Jebusite —seven nations greater and mightier than you ;

²and when the LORD your God delivers them up before you , and you strike them , then you shall utterly destroy them . You shall make no covenant with them , nor show mercy to them .

³You shall not make marriages with them . You shall not give your daughter to his son , nor shall you take his daughter for your son .

⁴For that would turn away your sons from following me , that they may serve other gods. So the LORD ’s anger would be kindled against you , and he would destroy you quickly .

⁵But you shall deal with them like this : you shall break down their altars , dash their pillars in pieces , cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their engraved images with fire.

⁶For you are a holy people to the LORD your God . The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession , above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

⁷The LORD 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 ;

⁸but because the LORD loves you , and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage , from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt .

⁹Know therefore that the LORD your God himself is God , the faithful God , who keeps covenant and loving kindness to a thousand generations with those who love him and keep his commandments ,

¹⁰and 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 .

¹¹You shall therefore keep the commandments , the statutes , and the ordinances which I command you today , to do them .

¹²It shall happen , because you listen to these ordinances and keep and do them , that the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers.

¹³He will love you , 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 livestock and the young of your flock , in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you .

¹⁴You will be blessed above all peoples . There won’t be male or female barren among you , or among your livestock.

¹⁵The LORD will take away from you all sickness ; and he will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt , which you know , on you , but will lay them on all those who hate you .

¹⁶You shall consume all the peoples whom the LORD your God shall deliver to you . Your eye shall not pity them . You shall not serve their gods; for that would be a snare to you .

¹⁷If you shall say in your heart , “These nations are more than I ; how can I dispossess them ?”

¹⁸you shall not be afraid of them . You shall remember well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt :

¹⁹the great trials which your eyes saw , the signs, the wonders , the mighty hand , and the outstretched arm , by which the LORD your God brought you out . So shall the LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid .

²⁰Moreover the LORD your God will send the hornet among them , until those who are left , and hide themselves , perish from before you .

²¹You shall not be scared of them ; for the LORD your God is among you , a great and awesome God .

²²The LORD your God will cast out those nations before you little by little . You may not consume them at once , lest the animals of the field increase on you .

²³But the LORD your God will deliver them up before you , and will confuse them with a great confusion , until they are destroyed .

²⁴He will deliver their kings into your hand , and you shall make their name perish from under the sky . No one will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them .

²⁵You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them , nor take it for yourself , lest you be snared in it ; for it is an abomination to the LORD your God .

²⁶You shall not bring an abomination into your house and become a devoted thing like it . You shall utterly detest it . You shall utterly abhor it ; for it is a devoted thing .