Deuteronomy 7

¹ When Yahweh your Elohim brings you into the land where you are about to enter in order to tenant it, and He eases many nations out before your face, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and substantial than you, ² when Yahweh your Elohim gives them up before you, and you smite them, then you shall doom, yea doom them. You shall neither contract a covenant with them nor be gracious to them, ³ nor shall you intermarry with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, and you shall not take his daughter for your son. ⁴ For it might take away your son from following after Me, and they might serve other elohim, and the anger of Yahweh would grow hot against you, and He would exterminate you quickly. ⁵ But rather, thus shall you do to them: you shall tear down their altars, break their monuments, hack down their Asherah poles, and you shall burn their carvings with fire. ⁶ For you are a people holy to Yahweh your Elohim; Yahweh your Elohim has chosen you to become His, a special people from all the peoples who are on the surface of the ground. ⁷ It was not because your multitude was more than all the other peoples that Yahweh was attached to you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all the peoples. ⁸ But it was because of the love of Yahweh for you and because of His keeping the oath that He had sworn to your fathers that Yahweh brought you forth with a steadfast hand and ransomed you from the house of servants, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. ⁹ Then know that Yahweh your Elohim, He is the One Elohim, the El, Who is faithful, keeping the covenant and the kindness to those loving Him and to those observing His instructions for a thousand generations, ¹⁰ yet repaying the one hating Him right to His face, so as to destroy him. He shall not delay toward one hating Him right to His face; He shall repay him. ¹¹ Hence observe the instruction and the statutes and the judgments which I am enjoining on you today, to keep them. ¹² It will come to be, insomuch as you shall hearken to these judgments, and you observe and do them, that Yahweh your Elohim will keep with you the covenant and the kindness about which He had sworn to your fathers; ¹³ He will love you and bless you; He will multiply you and bless the fruit of your belly and the fruit of your ground, your grain, your grape juice, and your clarified oil, the calving of your domestic animals and the lambing of your flock, on the ground about which Yahweh had sworn to your fathers to give to you. ¹⁴ Blessed shall you come to be above all the peoples. There shall come to be no sterile man or barren woman among you, nor among your beasts. ¹⁵ Yahweh will take away from you every illness; and all the bad diseases of Egypt about which you know, He shall not place them among you, but He will give them to all those hating you. ¹⁶ Now you will devour all the peoples whom Yahweh your Elohim is delivering to you. Your eye shall not commiserate over them, and you shall not serve their elohim, for that is a trap to you. ¹⁷ Though you may say in your heart: "These nations are more numerous than I; how shall I be able to evict them?" ¹⁸ You shall not fear them. You shall remember, yea remember what Yahweh your Elohim did to Pharaoh and to all of Egypt, ¹⁹ the great probings which your eyes have seen, the signs and the miracles, the steadfast hand and the outstretched arm with which Yahweh your Elohim brought you forth. So shall Yahweh your Elohim do to all the peoples of whom you are fearful because of their presence. ²⁰ Moreover, Yahweh your Elohim shall send the hornet among them, until those remaining and those concealed perish before your face. ²¹ You shall not be terrified because of their presence, since Yahweh your Elohim is among you, an El great and fear-inspiring. ²² Yahweh your Elohim will ease these nations out before your face, little by little. You shall not be able to finish them quickly, lest the land become a wilderness and the animal of the field multiply against you. ²³ Yet Yahweh your Elohim will give them up before you and discomfit them with a great discomfiture until they are exterminated. ²⁴ He will give their kings into your hand, and you will destroy their name from under the heavens. No man shall station himself in your presence until you exterminate them. ²⁵ You shall burn the carvings of their elohim with fire. You shall not covet the silver and gold on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be trapped by it, for it is an abhorrence to Yahweh your Elohim. ²⁶ You shall not bring an abhorrence into your house, or you will become doomed just like it is. You shall reject it as abominable, yea abominable; you shall reject it as abhorrent, yea abhorrent, for it is doomed.