1 “ The Lord your God will bring you into the land you are taking for your own. He will drive away many nations in front of you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations bigger and stronger than you.

When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you;

2 W hen the Lord your God gives them to you and you win the battles against them, you must destroy all of them. Make no agreement with them and show no favor to them.

and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;

3 D o not take any of them in marriage. Do not give your daughters to their sons. And do not take their daughters for your sons.

neither shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.

4 F or they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the Lord will burn against you. And He will be quick to destroy you.

For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods. So Yahweh’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.

5 B ut do this to them: Break down their altars. Crush their objects of worship. Cut down their female goddess Asherim. And burn their false gods with fire.

But you shall deal with them like this. You shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, and cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their engraved images with fire.

6 “ For you are a holy nation to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the nations on the earth, to be His own.

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

7 T he Lord did not give you His love and choose you because you were more people than any of the nations. For the number of your people was less than all nations.

Yahweh didn’t set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:

8 B ut it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the promise He made to your fathers. So the Lord brought you out by a strong hand. He set you free from the land where you were servants, and from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

but because Yahweh loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Yahweh has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

9 K now then that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God. He keeps His promise and shows His loving-kindness to those who love Him and keep His Laws, even to a thousand family groups in the future.

Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

10 B ut He destroys those who hate Him. He will not show kindness to the one who hates Him, but will punish him to his face.

and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates him. He will repay him to his face.

11 S o keep and obey all the Laws I am telling you today. Good Comes to Those Who Obey

You shall therefore keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you today, to do them.

12 “ If you listen to these Laws and keep and obey them, the Lord your God will keep His agreement and loving-kindness as He promised to your fathers.

It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers.

13 H e will love you and bring good to you and make you a nation of many. He will bring good to your children and the fruit of your land, your grain, your new wine and your oil. And He will give you many cattle and young ones in your flock, in the land He promised to your fathers to give you.

He will love you, bless you, multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.

14 M ore good will come to you than to any other nation. There will be no male or female among you or your cattle that is not able to have young ones.

You shall be blessed above all peoples. There shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.

15 T he Lord will take all sickness from you. He will not let any bad diseases come upon you that you have known in Egypt. But He will give them to all who hate you.

Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, will he put on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you.

16 Y ou will destroy all the nations the Lord your God will give to you. You will not pity them or worship their gods, for that would be a trap to you.

You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you. Your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that would be a snare to you.

17 “ You may say in your heart, ‘These nations are stronger than I. How can I drive them out?’

If you shall say in your heart, “These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?”

18 B ut you will not be afraid of them. You will remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.

you shall not be afraid of them. You shall remember well what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt;

19 Y ou will remember the hard trials you saw, the powerful works, and the strong hand and powerful arm the Lord your God used to bring you out. The Lord your God will do the same to all the nations who make you afraid.

the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, 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.

20 A nd the Lord your God will send the hornet against them. Those who are left will hide themselves from you and be destroyed.

Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.

21 Y ou will not be afraid of them. For the Lord your God is among you, a great and powerful God.

You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is among you, a great and awesome God.

22 T he Lord your God will drive away these nations in front of you one by one. You will not be able to destroy them in a short time, or the wild animals may become too many for you.

Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.

23 B ut the Lord your God will give them to you. He will bring much trouble upon them until they are destroyed.

But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they are destroyed.

24 H e will give their kings into your hand. And you will destroy their name from under heaven. No man will be able to stand in front of you until you have destroyed them.

He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under the sky. No one will be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.

25 Y ou must burn with fire their objects of worship. Do not want the silver or gold that is on them, or take it for yourselves. It would be a trap to you, for it is a hated thing to the Lord your God.

You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

26 D o not bring a hated thing into your house. You would become hated also. But turn from it with fear and hate, for bad will come from it.

You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.