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When YHVHa, thy Elohimb, shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee;
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Even the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
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And when YHVH, thy Elohim, shall deliver them before thee, thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them nor show mercy unto them;
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Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughters thou shalt not give unto their sons, nor their daughters shalt thou take unto thy sons;
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For they will turn away thy sons from following thy Elohim, that they may serve other elohima; so will the anger of YHVH be kindled against you and destroy thee suddenly.
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But thus shall you deal with them: You shall destroy theira altars, and tear down their sacred pillars, and burn their wooden idols, and smash their images carved into stone;
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For thou art a holy people unto YHVH, thy Elohim; YHVH, thy Elohim, hath chosen thee to be a holy people unto Himself, prized above all peoples upon the face of the earth.
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YHVH did not set His love upon you nor choose you because you are more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all people;
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But YHVH loves you and because He would keep the oath which He had sworn unto your fathers,
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And for the sake of that oath hath YHVH brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
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Know, therefore, that YHVH, thy Elohim, He is El Elyona above all of Ha’Elohimb, the faithful Godc, which keepeth covenants and hath mercy for they that love Him and keep His mitzvothd to a thousand generations,
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And YHVH repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them; He will not be slack to they that hateth Him; He will repay them to their face.
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Thou shalt, therefore, keep the mitzvoth, and the ordinances, and the customs which I do instruct thee this day, to doa them.
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¶ Wherefore, it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these customsa and keep and do them, that YHVH, thy Elohim, shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which He swore unto thy fathers;
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And YHVH will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee;
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YHVH 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 herds, and the flocks of thy sheep in the land which He swore unto thy fathers to give thee;
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And thou shalt be blessed above all people; there shall not be male or female barren among you or among your cattle.
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And YHVH shall take away from thee the plaguesa, yea, none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, will fall upon thee, but these shall be set aside to curse them that hate thee.
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And thou shalt consume all the people which YHVH, thy Elohim, shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them; neither shalt thou serve their elohim, for that will be a snare unto thee.
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And if thou shalt say in thine heart: These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
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Thou shalt not be afraid of them but shalt well remember what YHVH, thy Elohim, did unto Pharaoh and unto all of Egypt:
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The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and His mighty right arma, and His outstretched arm whereby YHVH, thy Elohim, brought thee out; so shall YHVH, thy Elohim, do unto all the people of whom thou might surly fear.
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Moreover, YHVH, thy Elohim, will send the hornet among them until they that are left and hide themselves from thee be destroyed;
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Therefore, thou shalt not be afraid of them; for YHVH, thy Elohim, is among you, and is the highest and the most revered amongst Ha’Elohim.
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¶ And YHVH, thy Elohim, will put out those nations before thee by little and little; thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
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But YHVH, thy Elohim, shall deliver them unto thee and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction until they be destroyed.
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And YHVH shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their names from under the heavens;
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And there shall be no one able to stand before thee; thou conquer them all.
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The graven images of their elohima shall you burn with fire; thou shalt not covet the silver or gold that is in them nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein; for it is loathsome unto YHVH, thy Elohim;
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Neither shalt thou bring any such detestable things into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it; but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a curseda thing.