Devote the Nations to Destruction

7 “^(A)When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and He clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, ^(B)seven nations more numerous and stronger than you, ² and when Yahweh your God gives them over before you and you strike them down, ^(C)then you shall devote them to destruction. ^(D)You shall cut no covenant with them ^(E)and show no favor to them. ³ Furthermore, ^(F)you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your ^[a]daughters to ^[b]their sons, nor shall you take ^[c]their daughters for your ^[d]sons. ⁴ For ^[e]they will turn your ^[f]sons away from ^[g]following Me, and they will serve other gods; then the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you, and ^(G)He will quickly destroy you. ⁵ But thus you shall do to them: ^(H)you shall tear down their altars and shatter their sacred pillars and cut their ^[h]Asherim in pieces and burn their graven images with fire. ⁶ For you are ^(I)a holy people to Yahweh your God; Yahweh your God has chosen you to be ^(J)a people for His ^[i]own treasured possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the ^[j]earth.