Deuteronomy 7 — OURB
7Verse 1When Adonai your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you, the Hittite [Descendant of Trembling fear], the Girgashite, the Amorite [Descendants of Talkers], the Canaanite [Descendant of Humbled], the Perizzite [Descendant of Belonging to village], the Hivite [Wicked], and the Jebusite [Descendants of Thresher], seven nations+greater and mightier than you;Verse 2and when Adonai 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;Verse 3+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.Verse 4For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may abad ·serve· other deities. So Adonai’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.Verse 5But 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.Verse 6For you are a holy people to Adonai your God. Adonai your God has chosen you to be a le'am segulah ·people of special treasure·+for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.Verse 7Adonai didn’t set his chasak ·to set one’s affection, to make bands· on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:Verse 8but because Adonai loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Adonai 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 [Abode of slavery]. (Maftir ·Conclusion·)Verse 9Know therefore that Adonai your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and chesed ·loving-kindness· with them who 'ahav ·affectionately love· him and keep his mitzvot ·instructions· to a thousand generations,Verse 10and 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.Verse 11You shall therefore keep the mitzvot ·instructions·, the statutes, and the judgments, which I enjoin you today, to do them.