1 “When your God YHWH brings you into the land to where you are going in to possess it, and He has thrown out many nations from your presence, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and mighty than you, 2 and your God YHWH has given them before you, then you will strike them—you utterly devote them—you will not make a covenant with them, nor will you favor them. 3 And you will not join in marriage with them. You will not give your daughter to his son, and you will not take his daughter to your son, 4 for he will turn aside your son from after Me, and serve other gods. And the anger of YHWH will burn against you and destroy you quickly. 5 But thus you do to them: you will break down their altars, and shatter their standing pillars, and cut down their Asherim, and burn their carved images with fire. 6 For you are a holy people to your God YHWH. Your God YHWH has fixed on you, to be to Him for a peculiar people, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the ground. 7 YHWH has delighted in you and fixes on you, not because of your being more numerous than any of the peoples, for you are the least of all the peoples, 8 but because of YHWH’s loving you, and because of His keeping the oath which He has sworn to your fathers. YHWH has brought you out by a strong hand, and ransomed you from a house of servants, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 And you know that He, your God YHWH, is God, the faithful God keeping the covenant and the kindness with those loving Him and with those keeping His commands, for 1,000 generations, 10 and repaying to those hating Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not delay to him who is hating Him, He will repay it to him to his face. 11 And you will keep the commands, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I am commanding you today to do them. 12 And it will be, because you heard these judgments, and have kept and do them, that your God YHWH keeps the covenant and the kindness with you which He has sworn to your fathers, 13 and loves you, and blesses you, and multiplies you, and blesses the fruit of your womb, and the fruit of your ground, your grain, and your new wine, and your oil, the increase of your oxen, and the wealth of your flock, on the ground which He has sworn to your fathers to give to you. 14 Blessed are you above all the peoples. There will not be a barren man or a barren woman in you—nor among your livestock. 15 And YHWH will turn aside every sickness from you, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt (which you have known) will He put on you, and He will put them on all hating you. 16 And you will consume all the peoples whom your God YHWH has given to you. Your eye will have no pity on them, and you will not serve their gods, for it will be a snare to you. 17 When you say in your heart, These nations are more numerous than I, how am I able to dispossess them? 18 You will not be afraid of them. You will surely remember that which your God YHWH had done to Pharaoh and to all of Egypt, 19 the great trials which your eyes have seen, and the signs, and the wonders, and the strong hand, and the outstretched arm, with which your God YHWH has brought you out. So does your God YHWH do to all the peoples of whose presence you are afraid. 20 And your God YHWH will also send the locust among them, until the destruction of those who are left, even those who are hidden from your presence. 21 You will not be terrified by their presence, for your God YHWH will be in your middle, a God great and fearful. 22 And your God YHWH will throw out these nations from your presence little by little (you are not able to consume them quickly, lest the beast of the field multiply against you), 23 and your God YHWH will give them before you, and confuse them with a great destruction until their being destroyed. 24 And He will give their kings into your hand, and you will destroy their name from under the heavens. No man will station himself in your presence until you have destroyed them. 25 You will burn the carved images of their gods with fire. You will not desire the silver and gold on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you are snared by it, for it is an abomination to your God YHWH. 26 And you will not bring in an abomination to your house, or you will be devoted like it—you will utterly detest it and utterly abhor it. For it is devoted.”