¹When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you are about to go, to take possession of it, and clears away many nations from your face, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations, great and mightier than you,

²and Yahweh your God gives them over before your face, and you strike them down, you must surely ban them; you shall not cut a covenant with them; and you shall not show favor to them.

³And you will not intermarry with them; your daughter you will not give to his son, and his daughter you will not take for your son.

⁴For he will turn aside your son from following me, and they will serve other gods; and the anger of Yahweh will burn against you, and he will wipe you out quickly.

⁵But this is what you will do to them: their altars you will pull down, and their pillars you will shatter, and their Asherah poles you will cut down, and their idols you will burn in the fire.

⁶For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God; Yahweh your God has chosen you to become his own treasured people from among all the peoples who are over the face of the ground.

⁷It was not because you were more numerous than all the peoples that Yahweh set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all the peoples.

⁸but it was from Yahweh's love of you, and from his keeping the oath which he swore to your fathers, that Yahweh brought you out with a strong hand and ransomed you from the house of slaves, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

⁹And you will know that Yahweh your God is God, the faithful God, who keeps the covenant and the loyal love for those who love him and for those who keep his commandments, to a thousand generations.

¹⁰and he repays those who hate him to his face, by destroying them; he does not delay for the one who hates him; to his face he repays him.

¹¹You will keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the justices that I am commanding you today, to do them.

¹²And it will be, because you hear these justices, and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep for you the covenant and the loyal love which he swore to your fathers.

¹³He will love you and bless you and multiply you; he will bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your fresh oil, the offspring of your cattle and the young ones of your flock, on the ground which he swore to your fathers to give you.

¹⁴Blessed you will be above all the peoples; there will not be a barren male or a barren female among you, or among your livestock.

¹⁵And Yahweh will remove from you every sickness, and all the evil diseases of Egypt which you knew he will not put them on you, but he will set them on all who hate you.

¹⁶And you will consume all the peoples that Yahweh your God is giving to you; your eye will not show pity on them, and you will not serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

¹⁷If you say in your heart, 'These nations are more numerous than I; how can I dispossess them?'

¹⁸You will not be afraid of them; you will surely remember what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt,

¹⁹the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs and the wonders, and the strong hand and the outstretched arm by which Yahweh your God brought you out; so will Yahweh your God do to all the peoples whom you are afraid to face.

²⁰And also the hornet Yahweh your God will send among them, until those who are left and those who hide from your face have perished.

²¹You will not be terrified of them, for Yahweh your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God.

²²And Yahweh your God will clear away these nations from before you little by little; you will not be able to make an end of them quickly, lest the animals of the field multiply against you.

²³And Yahweh your God will set them before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they are wiped out.

²⁴And he will give their kings into your hand, and you will make their name perish from under the skies; no one will stand before you until you have wiped them out.

²⁵The idols of their gods you will burn in the fire; you will not desire the silver and gold on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

²⁶And you will not bring an abomination into your house, lest you become a devoted thing like it; you will utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, for it is a devoted thing.