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