1 As die HERE jou God jou inbring in die land waarheen jy gaan om dit in besit te neem, en Hy baie nasies voor jou uit verjaag: die Hetiete, Girgasiete, Amoriete, Kana„niete, Feresiete, Hewiete en Jebusiete, sewe nasies, meer en magtiger as jy;
2 en die HERE jou God hulle aan jou oorgee, dat jy hulle verslaan, dan moet jy hulle geheel en al met die banvloek tref; jy mag geen verbond met hulle maak en hulle nie genadig wees nie.
3 Jy mag jou ook nie met hulle verswaer nie -- jy mag jou dogter nie gee aan sy seun, en sy dogter nie neem vir jou seun nie;
4 want hy sal jou seun van My afvallig maak, sodat hulle ander gode dien en die toorn van die HERE teen julle ontvlam en Hy jou gou verdelg.
5 Maar julle moet met hulle so doen: hulle altare moet julle omgooi en hulle klippilare verbrysel en hulle heilige boomstamme omkap en hulle gesnede beelde met vuur verbrand.
6 Want jy is 'n volk heilig aan die HERE jou God; jou het die HERE jou God uitverkies om uit al die volke wat op die aarde is, sy eiendomsvolk te wees.
7 Die HERE het 'n welgevalle aan julle gehad en julle uitverkies, nie omdat julle meer was as al die ander volke nie, want julle was die geringste van al die volke.
8 Maar omdat die HERE julle liefgehad en die eed gehou het wat Hy vir julle vaders gesweer het, het die HERE julle met 'n sterke hand uitgelei en jou uit die slawehuis, uit die hand van Farao, die koning van Egipte, verlos.
9 Jy moet dan weet dat die HERE jou God God is, die getroue God wat die verbond en die goedertierenheid hou vir die wat Hom lief het en sy gebooie onderhou, in duisend geslagte.
10 Maar aan die wat Hom haat, aan elkeen persoonlik, vergeld Hy dit, om hom te vernietig; Hy sal met sy hater nie versuim nie, hom persoonlik sal Hy dit vergelde.
11 Hou dan die gebod en die insettinge en die verordeninge wat ek jou vandag beveel om dit te volbring.
12 En omdat julle na hierdie verordeninge sal luister en dit hou en volbring, sal die HERE jou God vir jou die verbond en die goedertierenheid hou wat Hy jou vaders besweer het;
13 en Hy sal jou liefhê en jou seën en jou vermenigvuldig, en Hy sal die vrug van jou liggaam seën en die vrugte van jou land, jou koring en jou mos en jou olie, die aanteel van jou beeste en die aanteel van jou kleinvee, in die land wat Hy aan jou vaders met 'n eed beloof het om aan jou te gee.
14 Geseënd sal jy wees bo al die volke; daar sal by jou geen man of vrou onvrugbaar wees nie, ook nie onder jou vee nie.
15 En die HERE sal elke krankheid van jou wegneem en al die kwaai siektes van Egipte wat jy ken, nie op jou lê nie; maar Hy sal dit lê op almal wat jou haat.
16 En jy sal al die volke verteer wat die HERE jou God aan jou oorgee; jou oog mag hulle nie verskoon nie, en jy mag hulle gode nie dien nie; want dit sal vir jou 'n strik wees.
17 As jy in jou hart dink: Hierdie nasies is meer as ek, hoe sou ek hulle kan verdrywe? --
18 wees dan nie bevrees vir hulle nie; dink gedurig aan wat die HERE jou God aan Farao en die hele Egipte gedoen het,
19 die groot versoekinge wat jou oë gesien het, en die tekens en die wonders en die sterke hand en die uitgestrekte arm waardeur die HERE jou God jou uitgelei het; so sal die HERE jou God aan al die volke doen vir wie jy bevrees is.
20 En die HERE jou God sal ook die perdebye onder hulle stuur totdat hulle omkom wat oorgebly het en wat vir jou weggekruip het.
21 Skrik nie vir hulle nie, want die HERE jou God is by jou, 'n groot en gedugte God.
22 En die HERE jou God sal hierdie nasies so langsamerhand voor jou uit verjaag; jy mag hulle nie gou vernietig nie, dat die ongediertes nie teen jou die oorhand kry nie.
23 Maar die HERE jou God sal hulle aan jou oorgee en hulle in groot verwarring bring totdat hulle verdelg word.
24 Ook sal Hy hulle konings in jou hand gee, dat jy hulle naam onder die hemel kan laat verdwyn; niemand sal teen jou standhou totdat jy hulle verdelg het nie.
25 Die gesnede beelde van hulle gode moet julle met vuur verbrand; die silwer en die goud wat daaraan is, mag jy nie begeer of vir jou neem nie, dat jy nie daardeur verstrik raak nie; want dit is vir die HERE jou God 'n gruwel.
26 En jy mag geen gruwel in jou huis inbring nie, sodat jy nie net so onder die banvloek kom nie; jy moet daar heeltemal 'n afsku van hê en dit geheel en al as gruwel beskou; want dit is onder die banvloek.
1 When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you;
2 And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:
3 Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.
4 For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly.
5 But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire.
6 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.
7 The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations:
8 But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
9 Be certain, then, that the Lord your God is God; whose faith and mercy are unchanging, who keeps his word through a thousand generations to those who have love for him and keep his laws;
10 Rewarding his haters to their face with destruction; he will have no mercy on his hater, but will give him open punishment.
11 So keep the orders and the laws and the decisions which I give you today and do them.
12 And it will be, that if you give attention to these decisions and keep and do them, then the Lord will keep his agreement with you and his mercy, as he said in his oath to your fathers.
13 And he will give you his love, blessing you and increasing you: he will send his blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give you.
14 You will have greater blessings than any other people: no male or female among you or among your cattle will be without offspring.
15 And the Lord will take away from you all disease, and will not put on you any of the evil diseases of Egypt which you have seen, but will put them on your haters.
16 And you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives into your hands; have no pity on them, and do not give worship to their gods; for that will be a cause of sin to you.
17 If you say in your hearts, These nations are greater in number than we are: how are we to take their land from them?
18 Have no fear of them, but keep well in mind what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt;
19 The great punishments which your eyes saw, and the signs and the wonders and the strong hand and the stretched-out arm, by which the Lord your God took you out: so will the Lord your God do to all the peoples who are the cause of your fears.
20 And the Lord will send a hornet among them, till all the rest who have kept themselves safe from you in secret places have been cut off.
21 Have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, a great God greatly to be feared.
22 The Lord your God will send out the nations before you little by little; they are not to be rooted out quickly, for fear that the beasts of the field may be increased overmuch against you.
23 But the Lord your God will give them up into your hands, overpowering them till their destruction is complete.
24 He will give their kings into your hands, and you will put their names out of existence under heaven; there is not one of them who will not give way before you, till their destruction is complete.
25 The images of their gods are to be burned with fire: have no desire for the gold and silver on them, and do not take it for yourselves, for it will be a danger to you: it is a thing disgusting to the Lord your God:
26 And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.