Deuteronomy 7

7 ¹When your Father brings you into the land you're entering to possess, and drives out many nations ahead of you—Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—seven nations bigger and stronger than you. ²When your Father gives them to you and you defeat them, you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no covenant with them, show them no mercy. ³Don't intermarry with them—don't give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons. ⁴For they will turn your children from following me to serve other gods; our Father's anger will burn against you, and he will quickly destroy you. ⁵Instead, do this to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their carved images with fire. ⁶You are a people holy to your Father; your Father chose you from all peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession. ⁷Your Father loved and chose you not because you outnumbered other peoples—you were the fewest of all peoples. ⁸But because your Father loves you and keeps his oath sworn to your fathers, he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. ⁹Know: your Father is our Father, the faithful One who keeps covenant and faithful love for 1,000 generations, for those who love him and keep his commands, ¹⁰but repays haters to their face, destroying them; he is not slow to repay a hater to his face. ¹¹So keep the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that I am commanding you today, and carry them out.

¹²Because you listen to these rules, keeping and doing them, your Father will keep for you the covenant and faithful love sworn to your fathers. ¹³He will love you, bless you, multiply you—bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground: grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your herds, the young of your flock—in the land he swore to your fathers to give you. ¹⁴You will be blessed above all peoples; none among you, male or female, will be barren, nor your livestock. ¹⁵Your Father will remove all sickness from you, putting none of Egypt's evil diseases you knew on you, but on all who hate you. ¹⁶Destroy all the peoples your Father gives you. Don't pity them or serve their gods—that will trap you. ¹⁷If you think, 'These nations are greater than I; how can I drive them out?' ¹⁸do not fear them. Remember well what your Father did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt: ¹⁹the great trials your eyes saw, the signs and wonders, the strong hand and outstretched arm by which your Father brought you out. Your Father will do the same to all peoples you fear. ²⁰Your Father will send the hornet among them until those remaining and hiding from you die. ²¹Do not dread them, for your Father is among you, a great and awesome our Father. ²²Your Father will drive out these nations before you slowly. You cannot finish them quickly, or wild animals will multiply against you. ²³Your Father will hand them over to you, throwing them into great confusion until they are destroyed. ²⁴He will give their kings into your hand, and you will erase their name from under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you until you destroy them. ²⁵Burn their gods' carved images with fire. Don't crave the silver or gold on them or take it for yourself, or you'll be trapped by it—it is detestable to your Father. ²⁶Do not bring a detestable thing home, or you will be devoted to destruction like it. Detest it, despise it, for it is devoted to destruction.