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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;
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"Then it shall come about, because you listen to thesejudgments and keep and do them, that the LORD your God will keep with you His covenant and His lovingkindnesswhich He swore to your forefathers.
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"He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your newwine and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock, in the landwhich He swore to your forefathers to give you.
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"The LORD will remove from you allsickness; and He will not put on you any of the harmfuldiseases of Egyptwhich you have known, but He will lay them on all who hate you.
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"You shall consumeall the peopleswhom the LORD your God will deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.
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the greattrialswhich your eyessaw and the signs and the wonders and the mightyhand and the outstretchedarm by which the LORD your Godbrought you out. So shall the LORD your Goddo to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
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"The LORD your God will clearawaythesenationsbefore* you little by little; you will not be able to put an end to them quickly, for the wildbeasts would growtoonumerous for you.
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"He will deliver their kings into your hand so that you will make their nameperish from underheaven; noman will be able to standbefore you until you have destroyed them.
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"The gravenimages of their gods you are to burn with fire; you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nortake it for yourselves, or you will be snared by it, for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.
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"You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and like it comeunder the ban; you shall utterlydetest it and you shall utterlyabhor it, for it is somethingbanned.