Deuteronomy 7

¹“When the Lord

²and when the Lord

³Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son.

⁴For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the Lord

⁵But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.

⁶“For you are a holy people to the Lord

⁷The Lord

⁸but because the Lord

⁹“Therefore know that the Lord

¹⁰and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face.

¹¹Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.

¹²“Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the Lord

¹³And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He swore to your fathers to give you.

¹⁴You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female barren among you or among your livestock.

¹⁵And the Lord

¹⁶Also you shall destroy all the peoples whom the Lord

¹⁷“If you should say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?’—

¹⁸you shall not be afraid of them, but you shall remember well what the Lord

¹⁹the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs and the wonders, the mighty hand and the outstretched arm, by which the Lord

²⁰Moreover the Lord

²¹You shall not be terrified of them; for the Lord

²²And the Lord

²³But the Lord

²⁴And He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you will destroy their name from under heaven; no one shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.

²⁵You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you shall not covet the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it; for it is an abomination to the Lord

²⁶Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be doomed to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, for it is an accursed thing.