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Deuteronomy 7:1-6
Lexham English Bible

7 “When Yahweh your God brings you into the land that you are about to enter into it[a] to take possession of it, and he drives[b] out many nations before you,[c] the Hittites[d] and the Girgashites[e] and the Amorites[f] and the Canaanites[g] and the Hivites[h] and the Jebusites,[i] seven nations mightier and more numerous than you, 2 and Yahweh your God will give them over to you[j] and you defeat them, you must utterly destroy them;[k] you shall not make a covenant with them, and you shall not show mercy to them. 3 And you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughter to their son; and you shall not take his daughter for your son.[l] 4 For their[m] sons and daughters will cause your son[n] to turn away from following me,[o] and so they will serve other gods, and the anger of Yahweh would be kindled[p] against you, and he would quickly destroy you. 5 But this is what you must do to them: you shall break down their altars, and their stone pillars you shall smash, and their Asherah poles you shall hew down, and you shall burn their idols with fire. 6 For you are a holy people for Yahweh your God; Yahweh your God has chosen you to be for him a people, a treasured possession from among all the peoples that are on the face[q] of the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 7:1 Literally “there”
  2. Deuteronomy 7:1 Or “he will drive out”
  3. Deuteronomy 7:1 Literally “from your faces”
  4. Deuteronomy 7:1 Hebrew “Hittite”
  5. Deuteronomy 7:1 Hebrew “Girgashite”
  6. Deuteronomy 7:1 Hebrew “Amorite”
  7. Deuteronomy 7:1 Hebrew “Canaanite”
  8. Deuteronomy 7:1 Hebrew “Hivite”
  9. Deuteronomy 7:1 Hebrew “Jebusite”
  10. Deuteronomy 7:2 Literally “to your faces” or “before you”
  11. Deuteronomy 7:2 Literally “set them aside for destruction”
  12. Deuteronomy 7:3 Grammatically singular pronominal suffixes here can also be rendered “their”
  13. Deuteronomy 7:4 Or “his”
  14. Deuteronomy 7:4 Or “sons”
  15. Deuteronomy 7:4 Literally from “behind/after me”
  16. Deuteronomy 7:4 Literally “and it would become hot the nose of Yahweh”
  17. Deuteronomy 7:6 Or “surface”
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