Deuteronomy 7:12-8:10

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¹²If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the Lord your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your ancestors.^(A) ¹³He will love you and bless you^(B) and increase your numbers.^(C) He will bless the fruit of your womb,^(D) the crops of your land—your grain, new wine^(E) and olive oil^(F)—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.^(G) ¹⁴You will be blessed more than any other people; none of your men or women will be childless, nor will any of your livestock be without young.^(H) ¹⁵The Lord will keep you free from every disease.^(I) He will not inflict on you the horrible diseases you knew in Egypt,^(J) but he will inflict them on all who hate you.^(K) ¹⁶You must destroy all the peoples the Lord your God gives over to you.^(L) Do not look on them with pity^(M) and do not serve their gods,^(N) for that will be a snare^(O) to you.

¹⁷You may say to yourselves, “These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?^(P)” ¹⁸But do not be afraid^(Q) of them; remember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.^(R) ¹⁹You saw with your own eyes the great trials, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand^(S) and outstretched arm, with which the Lord your God brought you out. The Lord your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.^(T) ²⁰Moreover, the Lord your God will send the hornet^(U) among them until even the survivors who hide from you have perished. ²¹Do not be terrified by them, for the Lord your God, who is among you,^(V) is a great and awesome God.^(W) ²²The Lord your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little.^(X) You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you. ²³But the Lord your God will deliver them over to you, throwing them into great confusion until they are destroyed.^(Y) ²⁴He will give their kings^(Z) into your hand,^(AA) and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand up against you;^(AB) you will destroy them.^(AC) ²⁵The images of their gods you are to burn^(AD) in the fire. Do not covet^(AE) the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared^(AF) by it, for it is detestable^(AG) to the Lord your God. ²⁶Do not bring a detestable thing into your house or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction.^(AH) Regard it as vile and utterly detest it, for it is set apart for destruction.

Do Not Forget the Lord

8 Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live^(AI) and increase and may enter and possess the land the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors.^(AJ) ²Remember how the Lord your God led^(AK) you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test^(AL) you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. ³He humbled^(AM) you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna,^(AN) which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach^(AO) you that man does not live on bread^(AP) alone but on every word that comes from the mouth^(AQ) of the Lord.^(AR) ⁴Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.^(AS) ⁵Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.^(AT)

⁶Observe the commands of the Lord your God, walking in obedience to him^(AU) and revering him.^(AV) ⁷For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land^(AW)—a land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills;^(AX) ⁸a land with wheat and barley,^(AY) vines^(AZ) and fig trees,^(BA) pomegranates, olive oil and honey;^(BB) ⁹a land where bread^(BC) will not be scarce and you will lack nothing;^(BD) a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills.^(BE)