Deuteronomy, starting at chapter 7
{7:1} When Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you
go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, the
Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and
the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater
and mightier than you; {7:2} and when Yahweh your God shall deliver
them up before you, and you shall strike them; then you shall utterly
destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to
them; {7:3} 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. {7:4} For he will turn away your son from following me, that they
may serve other gods: so will the anger of Yahweh be kindled against
you, and he will destroy you quickly. {7:5} But thus shall you deal
with them: you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their
pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images
with fire. {7:6} For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God: Yahweh
your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above
all peoples who are on the face of the earth. {7:7} Yahweh didn't set
his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than
any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples: {7:8} but because
Yahweh loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he swore to
your fathers, has Yahweh brought you out with a mighty hand, and
redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh
king of Egypt. {7:9} Know therefore that Yahweh your God, he is God,
the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who
love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations, {7:10}
and 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.
{7:11} You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and
the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them. {7:12} It
shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances, and keep and do
them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the
loving kindness which he swore to your fathers: {7:13} and he will
love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the
fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your
new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of
your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.
{7:14} You shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male
or female barren among you, or among your livestock. {7:15} Yahweh
will take away from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of
Egypt, which you know, he will put on you, but will lay them on all
those who hate you. {7:16} You shall consume all the peoples who
Yahweh your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them:
neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you.
{7:17} If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I;
how can I dispossess them? {7:18} you shall not be afraid of them: you
shall well remember what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh, and to all
Egypt; {7:19} the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and
the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which
Yahweh your God brought you out: so shall Yahweh your God do to all
the peoples of whom you are afraid. {7:20} Moreover Yahweh your God
will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide
themselves, perish from before you. {7:21} You shall not be scared of
them; for Yahweh your God is in the midst of you, a great and awesome
God. {7:22} Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you by
little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the animals
of the field increase on you. {7:23} But Yahweh your God will deliver
them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion,
until they be destroyed. {7:24} He will deliver their kings into your
hand, and you shall make their name to perish from under the sky:
there shall no man be able to stand before you, until you have
destroyed them. {7:25} The engraved images of their gods shall you
burn with fire: you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on
them, nor take it to you, lest you be snared therein; for it is an
abomination to Yahweh your God. {7:26} You shall not bring an
abomination into your house, and become a devoted thing like it: you
shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a
devoted thing.
{8:1} All the commandment which I command you this day shall you
observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess
the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers. {8:2} You shall remember
all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the
wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was
in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not. {8:3}
He humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna,
which you didn't know, neither did your fathers know; that he might
make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by everything
that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh does man live. {8:4} Your
clothing didn't grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these
forty years. {8:5} You shall consider in your heart that as a man
chastens his son, so Yahweh your God chastens you. {8:6} You shall
keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to
fear him. {8:7} For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a
land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing
into valleys and hills; {8:8} a land of wheat and barley, and vines
and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey; {8:9}
a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not
lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose
hills you may dig copper. {8:10} You shall eat and be full, and you
shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.
{8:11} Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his
commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command
you this day: {8:12} lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have
built goodly houses, and lived therein; {8:13} and when your herds and
your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and
all that you have is multiplied; {8:14} then your heart be lifted up,
and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land
of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; {8:15} who led you through the
great and terrible wilderness, [in which were] fiery serpents and
scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water; who brought you
forth water out of the rock of flint; {8:16} who fed you in the
wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn't know; that he might
humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter
end: {8:17} and [lest] you say in your heart, My power and the might
of my hand has gotten me this wealth. {8:18} But you shall remember
Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that
he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at
this day. {8:19} It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and
walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify
against you this day that you shall surely perish. {8:20} As the
nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so shall you perish;
because you wouldn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.
{9:1} Hear, Israel: you are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go
in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities
great and fortified up to the sky, {9:2} a people great and tall, the
sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, Who
can stand before the sons of Anak? {9:3} Know therefore this day, that
Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire; he
will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you: so shall
you drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as Yahweh has
spoken to you. {9:4} Don't speak in your heart, after that Yahweh your
God has thrust them out from before you, saying, For my righteousness
Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land; whereas for the
wickedness of these nations Yahweh does drive them out from before
you. {9:5} Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your
heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of
these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and
that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. {9:6} Know therefore, that Yahweh
your God doesn't give you this good land to possess it for your
righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people. {9:7} Remember,
don't forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the
wilderness: from the day that you went forth out of the land of Egypt,
until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.
{9:8} Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry
with you to destroy you. {9:9} When I was gone up onto the mountain to
receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which
Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and
forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water. {9:10} Yahweh
delivered to me the two tables of stone written with the finger of
God; and on them [was written] according to all the words, which
Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire in
the day of the assembly. {9:11} It came to pass at the end of forty
days and forty nights, that Yahweh gave me the two tables of stone,
even the tables of the covenant. {9:12} Yahweh said to me, Arise, get
you down quickly from hence; for your people whom you have brought
forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they have quickly turned
aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a
molten image. {9:13} Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, I have
seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people: {9:14} let
me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under
the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than
they. {9:15} So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the
mountain was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant
were in my two hands. {9:16} I looked, and behold, you had sinned
against Yahweh your God; you had made you a molten calf: you had
turned aside quickly out of the way which Yahweh had commanded you.
{9:17} I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two
hands, and broke them before your eyes. {9:18} I fell down before
Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither
eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which you sinned,
in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to
anger. {9:19} For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with
which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened
to me that time also. {9:20} Yahweh was very angry with Aaron to
destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. {9:21} I
took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it with fire,
and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust:
and I cast the dust of it into the brook that descended out of the
mountain. {9:22} At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah,
you provoked Yahweh to wrath. {9:23} When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh
Barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you;
then you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you
didn't believe him, nor listen to his voice. {9:24} You have been
rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you. {9:25} So I
fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell
down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you. {9:26} I prayed to
Yahweh, and said, Lord Yahweh, don't destroy your people and your
inheritance, that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you
have brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. {9:27} Remember
your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; don't look to the
stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their
sin, {9:28} lest the land whence you brought us out say, Because
Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to
them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them
in the wilderness. {9:29} Yet they are your people and your
inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your
outstretched arm.
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