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When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast outmanynationsbefore thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites,sevennationsgreater and mightier than thou;
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And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterlydestroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
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For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serveothergods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
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But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
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For thou art an holypeople unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a specialpeople unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
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But because the LORDloved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mightyhand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaohking of Egypt.
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Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithfulGod, which keepethcovenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousandgenerations;
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Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
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And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
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And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evildiseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
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And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
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The greattemptations which thine eyessaw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mightyhand, and the stretched outarm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy Goddo unto all the people of whom thou art afraid*.
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And the LORD thy God will put outthosenationsbefore thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the fieldincrease upon thee.
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And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to standbefore thee, until thou have destroyed them.
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The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.
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Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterlydetest it, and thou shalt utterlyabhor it; for it is a cursed thing.