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 shall you take his daughter for
your son. {7:4} For he will turn away your son from following me, that
they may serve other gods: so the anger of Yahweh would be kindled
against you, and he would destroy you quickly. {7:5} But you shall
deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, and dash
their pillars in pieces, and cut 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 whom 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} You shall burn the
engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the
silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you
be snared in it; 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} You shall observe to do all the commandment which I command
you this day, 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 there 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 you shall 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 you shall drive them out, and make them to perish
quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you.
{9:4} Don't say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them
out from before you, saying, "For my righteousness Yahweh has brought
me in to possess this land;" because Yahweh driwes them out before you
because of the wickedness of these nations. {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 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 yourselves 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 its
dust 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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