Deuteronomy 7:12-8:10

English Standard Version

^12 (A)“And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the Lord your God will keep with you ^(B)the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers. ¹³ He will ^(C)love you, bless you, and multiply you. ^(D)He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you. ¹⁴ You shall be blessed above all peoples. ^(E)There shall not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock. ¹⁵ And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil ^(F)diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you. ¹⁶ And ^(G)you shall consume all the peoples that the Lord your God will give over to you. ^(H)Your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be ^(I)a snare to you.

¹⁷ “If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I. How can I dispossess them?’ ^18 (J)you shall not be afraid of them but you shall ^(K)remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt, ¹⁹ the great trials that your eyes saw, ^(L)the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the Lord your God brought you out. So will the Lord your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. ²⁰ Moreover, ^(M)the Lord your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed. ²¹ You shall not be in dread of them, for the Lord your God is ^(N)in your midst, ^(O)a great and awesome God. ^22 (P)The Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once,^[a] lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you. ^23 (Q)But the Lord your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed. ²⁴ And ^(R)he will give their kings into your hand, and you shall ^(S)make their name perish from under heaven. ^(T)No one shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them. ²⁵ The carved images of their gods ^(U)you shall burn with fire. You ^(V)shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be ^(W)ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God. ²⁶ And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destruction^[b] like it. You shall utterly detest and abhor it, ^(X)for it is devoted to destruction.

Remember the Lord Your God

8 “The whole commandment that I command you today ^(Y)you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers. ² And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you ^(Z)these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, ^(AA)testing you ^(AB)to know what was in your heart, ^(AC)whether you would keep his commandments or not. ³ And he humbled you and ^(AD)let you hunger and ^(AE)fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that ^(AF)man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word^[c] that comes from the mouth of the Lord. ^4 (AG)Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years. ⁵ Know then in your heart that, ^(AH)as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you. ⁶ So you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him. ⁷ For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, ^(AI)a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills, ⁸ a land of wheat and barley, ^(AJ)of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, ⁹ a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper. ¹⁰ And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.