⁷ “^(A)The Lord did not ^[a]make you His beloved nor choose you because you were greater in number than any of the peoples, since you were the fewest of all peoples, ⁸ but because the Lord loved you and kept the ^(B)oath which He swore to your forefathers, ^(C)the Lord brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of ^[b]slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. ⁹ Know therefore that the Lord your God, ^(D)He is God, ^(E)the faithful God, ^(F)who keeps ^[c]His covenant and ^[d]His faithfulness to a thousand generations for those who ^(G)love Him and keep His commandments; ¹⁰ but He ^(H)repays those who hate Him to ^[e]their faces, to eliminate ^[f]them; He will not hesitate toward him who hates Him, He will repay him to his face. ¹¹ Therefore, you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.

Warnings

7 “^(A)When the Lord your God brings you into the land where you are entering to take possession of it, and He drives away many nations from before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, ^(B)seven nations greater and mightier than you, ² and when the Lord your God turns them over to you and you ^[a]defeat them, ^(C)you shall ^[b]utterly destroy them. ^(D)You shall not make a covenant with them ^(E)nor be gracious to them. ³ Furthermore, ^(F)you shall not intermarry with them: you shall not give your ^[c]daughters to ^[d]their sons, nor shall you take ^[e]their daughters for your ^[f]sons. ⁴ For ^[g]they will turn your ^[h]sons away from ^[i]following Me, and they will serve other gods; then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you and ^(G)He will quickly destroy you. ⁵ But this is what you shall do to them: ^(H)you shall tear down their altars, smash their memorial stones, cut their ^[j]Asherim to pieces, and burn their carved images in the fire. ⁶ For you are ^(I)a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be ^(J)a people for His personal possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the ^[k]earth.

¹¹ “Be careful that you do not ^(A)forget the Lord your God by failing to keep His commandments, His ordinances, and His statutes which I am commanding you today; ¹² otherwise, ^(B)when you eat and are satisfied, and you build good houses and live in them, ¹³ and when your herds and your flocks increase, and your silver and gold increase, and everything that you have increases, ¹⁴ then your heart will ^[a]become proud and you will ^(C)forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of ^[b]slavery; ¹⁵ He who led you through ^(D)the great and terrible wilderness, with its ^(E)fiery serpents and scorpions, and its thirsty ground where there was no water; He who ^(F)brought water for you out of the rock of flint. ¹⁶ In the wilderness it was He who fed you manna ^(G)which your fathers did not know, in order to humble you and in order to ^(H)put you to the test, to do good for you ^[c]in the end. ¹⁷ Otherwise, ^(I)you may say in your heart, ‘My power and the strength of my hand made me this wealth.’ ¹⁸ But you are to remember the Lord your God, for ^(J)it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, in order to confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. ¹⁹ And it shall come about, if you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods and serve and worship them, ^(K)I testify against you today that you will certainly perish. ²⁰ Like the nations that the Lord eliminates from you, so ^(L)you shall perish, because you would not listen to the voice of the Lord your God.