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          DASV: Deuteronomy 7    

1 When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are
entering to possess, he will drive out many nations before you:
the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites,
Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and
mightier than you.
2 When the LORD your God delivers them over to you, and you
defeat them, then totally destroy them. Do not make a
covenant with them or show them mercy.
3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters
to their sons or take their daughters for your sons.
4 For they will turn away your sons from following me to
serve other gods. So the anger of the LORD will be sparked
against you and he will quickly destroy you.
5 But this is how you are to deal with them: break down
their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and cut down
their Asherah poles and burn their idols with fire.
6 For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD
your God has chosen you to be his own special people,
above all peoples on the face of the earth.

7 The LORD did not set his love on you or choose you because
you were more numerous than any other people, for you
were the fewest of all peoples.
8 Rather it was because the LORD loved you and was keeping
the oath he promised to your forefathers when the LORD
brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you
out of the house of slavery from the hand of Pharaoh
king of Egypt.
9 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful
God, who keeps his covenant and steadfast love with
those who love him and keep his commandments to a
thousand generations.
10 But he repays those who hate him to their face destroying
them. He will not delay to repay those who hate him to
their face.
11 Keep, therefore, the commands, statutes and regulations,
that I command you to do today.

12 If you listen to these ordinances, and do them, then the
LORD your God will keep his covenant and steadfast love with
you that he promised your forefathers.
13 He will love you, bless you and multiply you. He will also
bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground,
your grain, your new wine and olive oil, the offspring of
your herds and the lambs of your flocks, in the land that
he promised to your forefathers to give you.
14 You will be blessed above all peoples; there will be no
barrenness among your men or women or even among your
livestock.
15 The LORD will remove all sickness from you; and he will
not let you suffer any of the terrible diseases you knew
of in Egypt, but will inflict them on all who hate you.

16 You must destroy all the peoples that the LORD your God is
delivering to you. Your eye must not pity them and you must
not serve their gods for that will be a snare to you.
17 If you say in your heart, 'These nations are more than
we are, how can I ever dispossess them?'
18 Do not be afraid of them. Remember what the LORD your
God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt,
19 the great judgments that you saw, the signs and wonders,
the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which the LORD
your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the
same thing to all the peoples you are afraid of.
20 Moreover the LORD your God will send hornets among them,
until those who are left and hide themselves from you perish.

21 Do not be afraid of them, for the LORD your God is
in your midst, a great and awesome God.
22 The LORD your God will drive out those nations before you
little by little. You will not able to destroy them all
at once otherwise the wild animals would overrun you.
23 But the LORD your God will deliver them over to you,
and will throw them into a great panic until they are
destroyed.
24 He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you will
erase their name from under heaven. No one will be able
to stand against you, until you have destroyed them.

25 Burn the carved images of their gods with fire. Do not
covet the silver or gold that is on them, or take it for
yourself, lest you become snared by it, for it is detestable
to the LORD your God.
26 Do not bring any detestable thing into your house or you
will be set apart for destruction just like it is.
Absolutely detest and utterly abhor it, for it is an
object set apart for destruction.

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