DEUTERONOMY 7:7-26 7. Not because you are more numerous than any people did the Lord delight in you and choose you, for you are the least of all the peoples. 8. But because of the Lords love for you, and because He keeps the oath He swore to your forefathers, the Lord took you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. 9. Know, therefore, that the Lord, your God He is God, the faithful God, Who keeps the covenant and loving kindness with those who love Him and keep His commandments to a thousand generations. 10. And He repays those who hate Him, to their face, to cause them to perish; He will not delay the one who hates Him, but he will repay him to his face. 11. You shall therefore, observe the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day to do. 12. And it will be, because you will heed these ordinances and keep them and perform, that the Lord, your God, will keep for you the covenant and the kindness that He swore to your forefathers. 13. And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your soil, your grain, your wine, and your oil, the offspring of your cattle and the choice of your flocks, in the land which He swore to your forefathers to give you. 14. You shall be blessed above all peoples: There will be no sterile male or barren female among you or among your livestock. 15. And the Lord will remove from you all illness, and all of the evil diseases of Egypt which you knew, He will not set upon you, but He will lay them upon all your enemies. 16. And you shall consume all the peoples which the Lord your God gives you; you shall not spare them, nor shall you worship their gods, for that will be a snare for you. 17. Will you say to yourself, These nations are more numerous than I; how will I be able to drive them out? 18. You shall not fear them. You shall surely remember what the Lord, your God, did to Pharaoh and to all of Egypt: 19. The great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm with which the Lord, your God, brought you out. So will the Lord, Your God, do to all the peoples you fear. 20. And also the tzirah, the Lord, your God, will incite against them, until the survivors and those who hide from you perish. 21. You shall not be terrified of them, for the Lord, your God, Who is in your midst, is a great and awesome God. 22. And the Lord, your God, will drive out those nations from before you, little by little. You will not be able to destroy them quickly, lest the beasts of the field outnumber you. 23. But the Lord, your God, will deliver them to you, and He will confound them with great confusion, until they are destroyed. 24. And He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you will destroy their name from beneath the heavens; no man will be able to stand up before you, until you have destroyed them. 25. The graven images of their gods you will burn with fire; you shall not covet the silver or gold that is upon them and take it for yourself, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord, your God. 26. Nor should you bring an abomination into your house, lest you are to be destroyed like it, but you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is to be destroyed.
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