Deuteronomy 7:1-3

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Israel, God’s Special People

7 “The Lord your God will lead you into the land that you are entering to take for your own. He will force out many nations for you—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—seven nations greater and more powerful than you. ² The Lord your God will put these nations under your power. And you will defeat them. You must destroy them completely. Don’t make an agreement with them or show them mercy. ³ Don’t marry any of them, and don’t let your sons or daughters marry any of the people from those other nations.