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"When the LORD your Godbrings you into the landwhere* you are entering to possess it, and clearsawaymanynationsbefore* you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, sevennationsgreater and strongerthan you,
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and when the LORD your Goddelivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterlydestroy them. You shall makenocovenant with them and shownofavor to them.
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"For they will turn your sonsaway from following Me to serveothergods; then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you and He will quicklydestroy you.
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"But thus you shall do to them: you shall teardown their altars, and smash their sacred pillars, and hewdown their Asherim, and burn their gravenimages with fire.
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"For you are a holypeople to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peopleswho are on the face of the earth.
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but because the LORDloved you and kept the oathwhich He swore to your forefathers, the LORDbrought you out by a mightyhand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaohking of Egypt.
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"Know therefore that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithfulGod, who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousandthgeneration with those who love Him and keep His commandments;