These Are the Words (Deuteronomy) 7

1 When I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and have cast out many nations before you, the Terrors (Hittite), and the Those Whose Dwelling Is Clayey Soil (Girgashites), and The Talkers, Sayers (Amorite), and the Humbled Ones (Canaanites), and the Those Belonging to a Village (Perizzites), and the Villagers Hivites), and the Those Trodden Underfoot (Jebusites), seven nations greater and mightier than you;

 

2 When I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) shall deliver them before you; you shall smite them, and utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy on them:

 

3 Neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall you take to your son.

 

4 For they will turn away your son from following Me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) be kindled against you, and destroy you suddenly.

 

5 But you shall deal with them this way; you shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

 

6 For you are a holy people to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym): I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) have chosen you to be a special people to Himself, above all people that are on the face of the earth.

 

7 The Lord did not set His love on you, nor choose you because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all people:

 

8 But because I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) loved you, and because He would keep the oath which He had sworn to your fathers, has I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Great House (Pharaoh) king of Double Straights (Egypt).

 

9 Know therefore that I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym), He is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and mercy with them that love Him and keep His commandments to a thousand generations;

 

10 And repays them that hate Him to their face, to destroy them: He will not be slack to him that hates Him. He will repay him to his face.

 

11 You shall therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command you this day, to do them.

 

12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if you respond to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) shall keep to you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers:

 

13 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 land, your corn, and your wine, and your oil, the increase of your cattle, and the flocks of your sheep, in the land which He swore to your fathers to give you.

 

14 You shall be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your animals.

 

15 And I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) will take away from you all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Double Straights (Egypt), which you know, upon you; but will lay them on all them that hate you.

 

16 You shall consume all the people which I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) shall deliver you; your eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you.

 

17 If you shall say in your heart: These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

 

18 You shall not be afraid of them: but shall well remember what I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) did to Great House (Pharaoh), and to all Double Straights (Egypt);

 

19 The great temptations which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched-out arm, whereby I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) brought you out: So shall I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) do to all the people of whom you are afraid.

 

20 Moreover, I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) will send the hornet among them, until they that are left and hide from you, be destroyed.

 

21 You shall not be affrighted at them: for I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) is among you, a mighty God ('Elohiym) and terrible.

 

22 I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) will put out those nations before you by little and little: You may not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon you.

 

23 But I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym) shall deliver them to you, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they are destroyed.

 

24 He shall deliver their kings into your hand, and thou shall destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.

 

25 The graven images of their ‘elohiym shall you burn with fire: you shall not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it to you, lest you be snared by them: for it is an abomination to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym).

 

26 Neither shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be a cursed thing like it: but you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.