When the LORD thy God shallbringtheeinto the landwhitherthougoest to possess it, and hathcast out manynationsbeforethee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, sevennationsgreater and mightierthanthou;
And when the LORD thy God shalldeliverthembeforethee; thoushaltsmitethem, and utterlydestroythem; thoushaltmake no covenantwiththem, nor shewmercyuntothem:
For theywillturnaway thy son fromfollowing me, thatthey may serveothergods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindledagainst you, and destroytheesuddenly.
For thou art an holypeopleunto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hathchosenthee to be a specialpeopleuntohimself, above all peoplethat are upon the face of the earth.
But because the LORDloved you, and because he wouldkeep the oathwhich he had swornuntoyourfathers, hath the LORDbrought you out with a mightyhand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaohking of Egypt.
Knowthereforethat the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, whichkeepethcovenant and mercywiththemthatlove him and keep his commandments to a thousandgenerations;
Wherefore it shallcome to pass, if ye hearken to thesejudgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shallkeepuntothee the covenant and the mercywhich he swareunto thy fathers:
And he willlovethee, and blessthee, and multiplythee: he willalsobless 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 landwhich he swareunto thy fathers to givethee.
And the LORDwilltakeawayfromthee all sickness, and will put none of the evildiseases of Egypt, whichthouknowest, uponthee; but will lay themupon all themthathatethee.
And thoushaltconsume all the peoplewhich the LORD thy God shalldeliverthee; thine eye shallhave no pityuponthem: neithershaltthouservetheirgods; for thatwill be a snareuntothee.
The greattemptationswhichthineeyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mightyhand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God broughtthee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whomthou art afraid.
And the LORD thy God will put out thosenationsbeforethee by little and little: thoumayest not consumethem at once, lest the beasts of the fieldincreaseuponthee.
And he shalldelivertheirkingsintothinehand, and thoushaltdestroytheirnamefromunderheaven: thereshall no man be able to standbeforethee, untilthouhavedestroyedthem.
The gravenimages of theirgodsshall ye burnwithfire: thoushalt not desire the silver or goldthat is on them, nor take it untothee, lestthou be snaredtherein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.
Neithershaltthoubring an abominationintothinehouse, lestthou be a cursedthinglike it: but thoushaltutterlydetest it, and thoushaltutterlyabhor it; for it is a cursedthing.