# Deuteronomy 7

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/deuteronomy/7

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. When Yahweh your God brings you to the land where you go to possess it and drives out many nations before you—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you,
2. When Yahweh your God delivers them before you and you strike them, utterly destroy them; make no covenant with them, nor show them mercy.
3. Do not intermarry with them; do not give your daughter to his son or take his daughter for your son.
4. For they will turn your son from following me to serve other gods, so Yahweh's anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you quickly.
5. But you shall do this to them: tear down their altars, shatter their pillars, cut down their Asherim, and burn their carved images in fire.
6. For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God; Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a treasured people for himself above all peoples on the face of the earth.
7. Not because of your greater numbers than all the nations did Yahweh set his love on you and choose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples.
8. Because of Yahweh's love for you and his keeping the oath he swore to your fathers, Yahweh brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the house of slaves, from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
9. Know that Yahweh your God—he is the faithful God who keeps the covenant and steadfast love for those who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations.
10. He repays those who hate him to his face, destroying them; he will not delay to one who hates him—to his face he repays him.
11. Keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments that I command you today, to do them.
12. If you heed these judgments and keep and do them, Yahweh your God will keep for you the covenant and the favor that he swore to your fathers.
13. He will love you, bless you, and multiply you; he will bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land—your grain, your new wine, your oil, the increase of your oxen and the flocks of your sheep—upon the ground that he swore to your fathers to give you.
14. You will be blessed above all peoples; no barren male or barren female will be among you or among your livestock.
15. Yahweh will withdraw from you all sickness and every grievous plague of Egypt that you know; he will not attach them to you but will deliver them to all your enemies.
16. You shall devour all the nations that Yahweh your God delivers to you; do not let your eye spare them, nor serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
17. If you say in your heart, "These nations outnumber me—how can I drive them out?"
18. Do not fear them; remember well what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt.
19. The great trials your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm by which Yahweh your God brought you out—so Yahweh your God will do to all the nations you fear.
20. Yahweh your God will also send the hornet among them until the survivors and those in hiding perish from before you.
21. Do not dread them, for Yahweh your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God.
22. Yahweh your God will drive those nations out from before you little by little; you will not be able to finish them off quickly, lest the wild beasts of the field multiply against you.
23. Yahweh your God will hand them over before you and throw them into great panic until he annihilates them.
24. He will give their kings into your hand, and you will destroy their name from under the heavens—no man will stand before you until you have destroyed them.
25. Burn the carved images of their gods with fire; do not desire the silver or gold upon them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
26. Do not bring an abomination into your house, lest you become devoted to destruction like it. Utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, for it is devoted to destruction.

## Nearby chapters

[Deuteronomy 6](https://www.lumin.faith/read/deuteronomy/6.md)
[Deuteronomy 8](https://www.lumin.faith/read/deuteronomy/8.md)

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