Deuteronomy 7
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
A Chosen People
7 When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are about to enter and occupy, and he clears away many nations before you—the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations mightier and more numerous than you— 2 and when the Lord your God gives them over to you and you defeat them, then you must utterly destroy them. Make no covenant with them and show them no mercy. 3 Do not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, 4 for that would turn away your children from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly. 5 But this is how you must deal with them: break down their altars, smash their pillars, hew down their sacred poles,[a] and burn their idols with fire. 6 For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession.
7 It was not because you were more numerous than any other people that the Lord set his heart on you and chose you—for you were the fewest of all peoples. 8 It was because the Lord loved you and kept the oath that he swore to your ancestors, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who maintains covenant loyalty with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, 10 and who repays in their own person those who reject him. He does not delay but repays in their own person those who reject him. 11 Therefore, observe diligently the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that I am commanding you today.
Blessings for Obedience
12 If you heed these ordinances, by diligently observing them, the Lord your God will maintain with you the covenant loyalty that he swore to your ancestors; 13 he will love you, bless you, and multiply you; he will bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock, in the land that he swore to your ancestors to give you. 14 You shall be the most blessed of peoples, with neither sterility nor barrenness among you or your livestock. 15 The Lord will turn away from you every illness; all the dread diseases of Egypt that you experienced, he will not inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you. 16 You shall devour all the peoples that the Lord your God is giving over to you, showing them no pity; you shall not serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.
17 If you say to yourself, “These nations are more numerous than I; how can I dispossess them?” 18 do not be afraid of them. Just remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt, 19 the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which the Lord your God brought you out. The Lord your God will do the same to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. 20 Moreover, the Lord your God will send the pestilence[b] against them, until even the survivors and the fugitives are destroyed. 21 Have no dread of them, for the Lord your God, who is present with you, is a great and awesome God. 22 The Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little; you will not be able to make a quick end of them, otherwise the wild animals would become too numerous for you. 23 But the Lord your God will give them over to you, and throw them into great panic, until they are destroyed. 24 He will hand their kings over to you and you shall blot out their name from under heaven; no one will be able to stand against you, until you have destroyed them. 25 The images of their gods you shall burn with fire. Do not covet the silver or the gold that is on them and take it for yourself, because you could be ensnared by it; for it is abhorrent to the Lord your God. 26 Do not bring an abhorrent thing into your house, or you will be set apart for destruction like it. You must utterly detest and abhor it, for it is set apart for destruction.
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 7:5 Heb Asherim
- Deuteronomy 7:20 Or hornets: Meaning of Heb uncertain
Deuteronomy 7
King James Version
7 When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
2 And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
6 For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
7 The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
8 But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9 Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
15 And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
19 The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out: so shall the Lord thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.
20 Moreover the Lord thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
22 And the Lord thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
23 But the Lord thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
24 And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therin: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
Deuteronomy 7
New King James Version
A Chosen People(A)
7 “When the Lord your God brings you into the land which you go to (B)possess, and has cast out many (C)nations before you, (D)the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you, 2 and when the Lord your God delivers (E)them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. (F)You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. 3 (G)Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. 4 For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; (H)so the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly. 5 But thus you shall deal with them: you shall (I)destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their [a]wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.
6 “For you are a [b]holy people to the Lord your God; (J)the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. 7 The Lord did not set His (K)love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were (L)the least of all peoples; 8 but (M)because the Lord loves you, and because He would keep (N)the oath which He swore to your fathers, (O)the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of [c]bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9 “Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, (P)the faithful God (Q)who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments; 10 and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not [d]be (R)slack with 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 command you today, to observe them.
Blessings of Obedience(S)
12 “Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers. 13 And He will (T)love you and bless you and [e]multiply you; (U)He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He [f]swore to your fathers to give you. 14 You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female (V)barren among you or among your livestock. 15 And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the (W)terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you. 16 Also you shall [g]destroy all the peoples whom the Lord your God delivers over to you; your eye shall have no pity on them; nor shall you serve their gods, for that will (X)be a snare to you.
17 “If you should say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?’— 18 you shall not be afraid of them, but you shall (Y)remember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt: 19 (Z)the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs and the wonders, the mighty hand and the outstretched arm, by which the Lord your God brought you out. So shall the Lord your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. 20 (AA)Moreover the Lord your God will send the hornet among them until those who are left, who hide themselves from you, are destroyed. 21 You shall not be terrified of them; for the Lord your God, the great and awesome God, is among you. 22 And the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you (AB)little by little; you will be unable to [h]destroy them at once, lest the beasts of the field become too numerous for you. 23 But the Lord your God will deliver them over to you, and will inflict defeat upon them until they are destroyed. 24 And (AC)He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you will destroy their name from under heaven; (AD)no one shall be able to stand [i]against you until you have destroyed them. 25 You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you shall not (AE)covet[j] the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it; for it is an abomination to the Lord your God. 26 Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be doomed to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, (AF)for it is an [k]accursed thing.
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 7:5 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities
- Deuteronomy 7:6 set-apart
- Deuteronomy 7:8 slavery
- Deuteronomy 7:10 delay
- Deuteronomy 7:13 cause you to increase
- Deuteronomy 7:13 promised
- Deuteronomy 7:16 consume
- Deuteronomy 7:22 consume
- Deuteronomy 7:24 before
- Deuteronomy 7:25 desire
- Deuteronomy 7:26 devoted or banned
Phục Truyền 7
New Vietnamese Bible
Đánh Đuổi Các Dân Tộc Trong Xứ Ca-na-an
7 Khi CHÚA, Đức Chúa Trời của anh chị em đem anh chị em vào để chiếm hữu đất hứa và đánh đuổi trước mắt anh chị em các dân Hê-tít, Ghi-rê-ga-sít, A-mô-rít, Ca-na-an, Phê-rê-sít, Hê-vít và Giê-bu-sít là bảy dân tộc lớn mạnh hơn anh chị em. 2 Khi CHÚA, Đức Chúa Trời trao họ cho anh chị em và anh chị em đã chiến thắng, phải hoàn toàn tiêu diệt họ cách không thương xót và đừng ký kết giao ước với họ. 3 Đừng kết thông gia với họ, đừng gả con gái cho con trai họ cũng đừng cưới con gái họ cho con trai anh chị em, 4 vì họ sẽ dụ dỗ con trai anh chị em từ bỏ CHÚA để đi theo và phục vụ các thần của họ, mà làm cho cơn thịnh nộ của CHÚA phừng cháy và tiêu diệt anh chị em cách nhanh chóng. 5 Đây là cách anh chị em phải đối xử với họ: phá đổ các bàn thờ, đập nát các tượng đá, chặt gẫy các trụ A-sê-ra và thiêu các hình tượng của họ trong lửa, 6 vì anh chị em là một dân tộc thánh thuộc riêng về CHÚA, Đức Chúa Trời của anh chị em. Anh chị em đã được Ngài lựa chọn trong tất cả các dân tộc trên đất để làm dân CHÚA và cơ nghiệp quý báu của Ngài.
7 CHÚA thương xót và lựa chọn anh chị em không phải vì anh chị em đông hơn các dân khác, thực ra anh chị em là dân tộc ít người nhất. 8 Nhưng vì CHÚA thương yêu anh chị em và vì giữ lời thề với các tổ phụ mà Ngài dùng tay quyền năng cứu chuộc và đem anh chị em ra khỏi đất nô lệ, khỏi quyền lực của Pha-ra-ôn, vua Ai-cập. 9 Như vậy, anh chị em phải ý thức rằng CHÚA, Đức Chúa Trời của anh chị em là Đức Chúa Trời độc nhất: Ngài là Đức Chúa Trời thành tín, giữ giao ước và tình yêu thương của Ngài đến cả ngàn thế hệ cho người nào kính yêu Chúa và vâng theo mạng lệnh Ngài. 10 Nhưng ai từ bỏ Ngài sẽ bị Ngài báo ứng ngay lập tức bằng cách tiêu diệt người ấy, vì Ngài không trì hoãn nhưng báo ứng ngay lập tức người nào từ khước Ngài.
11 Vì vậy anh chị em phải cẩn thận làm theo các điều răn, quy luật và sắc lệnh tôi truyền lại hôm nay.
12 Nếu anh chị em để ý và cẩn thận làm theo các luật lệ này, CHÚA, Đức Chúa Trời của anh chị em sẽ giữ giao ước và tình yêu thương với anh chị em, như Ngài đã thề với các tổ phụ. 13 Chúa sẽ yêu thương, ban phước và tăng gia nhân số anh chị em. Chúa sẽ ban phước cho con cháu anh chị em, cho thổ sản ngoài đồng kể cả ngũ cốc, rượu nho và dầu, cho các con mới sinh của bầy bò và bầy chiên tại trong xứ Ngài thề hứa với các tổ tiên là sẽ ban cho anh chị em. 14 Anh chị em sẽ được phước hơn mọi dân tộc khác, sẽ không một người nào, dù nam hay nữ, bị son sẻ và không một súc vật nào không có khả năng sinh sản. 15 CHÚA sẽ giữ cho anh chị em khỏi mắc bệnh tật. Ngài không giáng trên anh chị em các chứng bệnh hiểm nghèo anh chị em đã thấy trong xứ Ai-cập, nhưng sẽ giáng các chứng bệnh ấy cho những người nào thù ghét anh chị em. 16 Anh chị em phải tiêu diệt hoàn toàn các dân tộc CHÚA trao vào tay anh chị em. Đừng thương xót họ cũng đừng phục vụ các thần của họ, vì nếu làm như vậy anh chị em sẽ bị mắc bẫy.
17 Anh chị em có thể tự nhủ thầm: “Những dân tộc này mạnh hơn chúng ta, làm sao chúng ta đánh đuổi họ được?” 18 Anh chị em đừng sợ họ nhưng phải nhớ rõ những gì CHÚA, Đức Chúa Trời của anh chị em đã làm cho Pha-ra-ôn và cho cả xứ Ai-cập. 19 Chính mắt anh chị em đã thấy những cuộc thử thách lớn lao, những dấu kỳ phép lạ và cánh tay quyền năng của CHÚA đã đưa ra để đem anh chị em ra khỏi Ai-cập. CHÚA, Đức Chúa Trời của anh chị em cũng sẽ làm như vậy cho những dân tộc anh chị em đang sợ. 20 Ngoài ra, CHÚA, Đức Chúa Trời của anh chị em sẽ sai ong vò vẽ đến trên họ đến nỗi những người sống sót đang tìm chỗ trốn cũng sẽ bị tiêu diệt hết. 21 Đừng sợ hãi họ, vì CHÚA, Đức Chúa Trời đang ở giữa anh chị em là Đức Chúa Trời vĩ đại và đáng kính sợ. 22 CHÚA, Đức Chúa Trời của anh chị em sẽ lần lần đánh đuổi các dân tộc ấy trước mắt anh chị em. Ngài không cho phép anh chị em diệt tất cả các dân tộc ấy cùng một lúc, vì nếu làm vậy các thú rừng sẽ sinh sôi nẩy nở xung quanh anh chị em. 23 Nhưng CHÚA, Đức Chúa Trời của anh chị em chắc chắn sẽ giao phó họ cho anh chị em, làm cho họ hoang mang, hoảng sợ cho đến khi bị tiêu diệt hết. 24 Ngài sẽ trao vua các nước ấy vào tay anh chị em và anh chị em sẽ xóa sạch tên họ khỏi dưới trời. Không một ai có thể chống cự anh chị em và anh chị em sẽ tiêu diệt họ hết. 25 Anh chị em phải thiêu hủy các thần tượng của họ. Đừng tham lam và chiếm giữ cho mình bạc vàng dùng bọc trên các tượng này kẻo anh chị em mắc bẫy vì CHÚA, Đức Chúa Trời của anh chị em ghê tởm những thứ đó. 26 Đừng đem các thứ đáng ghê tởm vào nhà anh chị em để lãnh họa diệt vong. Phải ghê tởm và ghét các thứ này là thứ để dành cho lửa thiêu hủy.
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