¶ When the LORD¹ thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites², and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater³ and mightier than thou;

And when the LORD thy God shall deliver⁴ them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly⁵ destroy them; thou shalt make no⁶ covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:

⁷Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will⁸ the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.

But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy⁹ their altars, and break down their images¹⁰, and cut¹¹ down their groves, and burn¹² their graven images with fire.

For thou art an holy¹³ people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special¹⁴ people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

The LORD¹⁵ did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were¹⁶ more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:

But because¹⁷ the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath¹⁸ which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought¹⁹ you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful²⁰ God, which keepeth²¹ covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand²² generations;

¶ And repayeth²³ them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack²⁴ to him that hateth²⁵ him, he will repay him to his face.

²⁶Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

¶ Wherefore it shall come to pass, if²⁷ ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD²⁸ thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:

And he will love²⁹ thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also³⁰ 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.

Thou shalt be blessed³¹ above all people: there shall not be male or³² female barren among you, or among your cattle.

And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none³³ of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.

And thou shalt consume³⁵ all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye³⁶ shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will³⁷ be a snare unto thee.

If thou shalt³⁸ say in thine heart, These nations³⁹ are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

Thou shalt not⁴⁰ be afraid of them: but shalt well remember⁴¹ what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;

The great⁴² 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 shall⁴³ the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.

¶ Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet⁴⁴ among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.

Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD⁴⁵ thy God is among you, a mighty God⁴⁶ and terrible.

And the LORD thy God will put out⁴⁷ those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.

But the LORD⁴⁸ thy God shall deliver them unto thee⁴⁹, and shall destroy⁵⁰ them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.

And he shall⁵¹ deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name⁵² from under heaven: there shall⁵³ no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.

The graven⁵⁴ images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt⁵⁵ not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared⁵⁶ therein: for it is an abomination⁵⁷ to the LORD thy God.

Neither shalt⁵⁸ thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt⁵⁹ utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.