Deuteronomy, starting at chapter 7
{7:1} When the LORD 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 the LORD 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 the LORD 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 the LORD your God: the
LORD 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} The LORD
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 the LORD loves you, and because he would keep the oath
which he swore to your fathers, has the LORD 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 the LORD your
God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving
kindness with them who love him and keep his mitzvot 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 mitzvah, 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 the LORD 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} The LORD 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 the LORD 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 the LORD
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 the LORD your God brought you
out: so shall the LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you are
afraid. {7:20} Moreover the LORD 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 the LORD your
God is in the midst of you, a great and awesome God. {7:22} The LORD
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 the LORD 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 the LORD 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 mitzvah 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 the LORD swore to your fathers. {8:2} You shall remember all the
way which the LORD 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 mitzvot, 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 the LORD 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 the LORD your God chastens you. {8:6} You shall
keep the mitzvot of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to
fear him. {8:7} For the LORD 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 the LORD your God for the good land which he has given
you. {8:11} Beware lest you forget the LORD your God, in not keeping
his mitzvot, 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 the LORD 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
the LORD 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 the LORD 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 the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you
perish; because you wouldn't listen to the voice of the LORD 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
the LORD 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 the LORD has
spoken to you. {9:4} Don't speak in your heart, after that the LORD
your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, For my
righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land; whereas
for the wickedness of these nations the LORD 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 the LORD your God does drive them out from
before you, and that he may establish the word which the LORD swore to
your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. {9:6} Know
therefore, that the LORD 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 the LORD 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 the LORD. {9:8} Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath,
and the LORD 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 the LORD made with you, then I stayed on the
mountain forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor
drink water. {9:10} The LORD 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 the LORD 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 the LORD gave me
the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant. {9:12} The
LORD 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
the LORD 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 the LORD your God; you had
made you a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly out of the way
which the LORD 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 the LORD, 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 the LORD, to provoke him to anger. {9:19} For I was afraid of
the anger and hot displeasure, with which the LORD was angry against
you to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me that time also. {9:20}
The LORD 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 the LORD to wrath.
{9:23} When the LORD sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, Go up and
possess the land which I have given you; then you rebelled against the
mitzvah of the LORD your God, and you didn't believe him, nor listen
to his voice. {9:24} You have been rebellious against the LORD from
the day that I knew you. {9:25} So I fell down before the LORD the
forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because the LORD had
said he would destroy you. {9:26} I prayed to the LORD, and said, Lord
GOD, 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 the LORD 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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