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You shall cut no covenant with them and show no favor to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>daughters to <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>their sons, nor shall you take <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>their daughters for your <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>sons. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>they will turn your <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>sons away from <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>following Me, and they will serve other gods; then the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you, and He will quickly destroy you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But thus you shall do to them: you shall tear down their altars and shatter their <i>sacred</i> pillars and cut their <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Asherim in pieces and burn their graven images with fire. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God; Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for His <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>own treasured possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>earth. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“Yahweh did not set His affection on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>but because Yahweh loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your fathers, Yahweh brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the house of <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You shall know therefore that Yahweh your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>His covenant and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>His lovingkindness to a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>but repays those who hate Him to <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>their faces, to make <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>them perish; He will not delay <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>with him who hates Him, He will repay him to his face. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Therefore, you shall keep the commandment and the statutes and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them. <p class="hdg">Yahweh’s Covenant Blessings</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Then it will be, because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>His covenant and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>His lovingkindness which He swore to your fathers. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>in the land which He swore to your fathers to give you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no male or female barren among you or among your cattle. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and He will not put on you any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but He will give them to all who hate you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And you shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God will give over to you; your eye shall not pity them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that <i>would be</i> a snare to you. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“If you should say in your heart, ‘These nations are more numerous than I; how can I dispossess them?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>you shall not be afraid of them; you shall well remember what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt: <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>the great trials which your eyes saw and the signs and the wonders and the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which Yahweh your God brought you out. So shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Moreover, Yahweh your God will send the hornet against them until those who remain and hide themselves from you perish. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>You shall not dread <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>them, for Yahweh your God is in your midst, a great and fearsome God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Yahweh your God will clear away these nations before you little by little; you will not be able to put an end to them quickly, lest the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>wild beasts become too numerous for you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But Yahweh your God will give them over before you and will <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>throw them into great confusion until they are destroyed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And He will give their kings into your hand so that you will make their name perish from under heaven; no man will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>The graven images of their gods you are to burn with fire; you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it, for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And you shall not bring an abomination into your house and become devoted to destruction like it; you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it, for it is devoted to destruction.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">3</span> Lit <i>daughter</i><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> Lit <i>his son</i><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> Lit <i>his daughter</i><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> Lit <i>son</i><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> Lit <i>he</i><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> Lit <i>son</i><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> Lit <i>after</i><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> Wooden symbols of a female deity<br><span class="fnverse">6</span> Or <i>special treasure</i><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> Lit <i>ground</i><br><span class="fnverse">8</span> Lit <i>slaves</i><br><span class="fnverse">9</span> Lit <i>the</i><br><span class="fnverse">9</span> Lit <i>the</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>his face</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>him</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>to</i><br><span class="fnverse">12</span> Lit <i>the</i><br><span class="fnverse">12</span> Lit <i>the</i><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> Lit <i>on the ground</i><br><span class="fnverse">21</span> Lit <i>from before them</i><br><span class="fnverse">22</span> Lit <i>beasts of the field</i><br><span class="fnverse">23</span> Lit <i>confuse them with</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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