1 Quando o Senhor, teu Deus, te introduzir na terra a qual passas a possuir, e tiver lançado muitas nações de diante de ti, os heteus, e os girgaseus, e os amorreus, e os cananeus, e os ferezeus, e os heveus, e os jebuseus, sete nações mais numerosas e mais poderosas do que tu; 2 e o Senhor, teu Deus, as tiver dado diante de ti, para as ferir, totalmente as destruirás; não farás com elas aliança, nem terás piedade delas; 3 nem contrairás matrimônio com os filhos dessas nações; não darás tuas filhas a seus filhos, nem tomarás suas filhas para teus filhos; 4 pois elas fariam desviar teus filhos de mim, para que servissem a outros deuses; e a ira do Senhor se acenderia contra vós outros e depressa vos destruiria. 5 Porém assim lhes fareis: derribareis os seus altares, quebrareis as suas colunas, cortareis os seus postes-ídolos e queimareis as suas imagens de escultura.

6 Porque tu és povo santo ao Senhor, teu Deus; o Senhor, teu Deus, te escolheu, para que lhe fosses o seu povo próprio, de todos os povos que há sobre a terra. 7 Não vos teve o Senhor afeição, nem vos escolheu porque fôsseis mais numerosos do que qualquer povo, pois éreis o menor de todos os povos, 8 mas porque o Senhor vos amava e, para guardar o juramento que fizera a vossos pais, o Senhor vos tirou com mão poderosa e vos resgatou da casa da servidão, do poder de Faraó, rei do Egito. 9 Saberás, pois, que o Senhor, teu Deus, é Deus, o Deus fiel, que guarda a aliança e a misericórdia até mil gerações aos que o amam e cumprem os seus mandamentos; 10 e dá o pago diretamente aos que o odeiam, fazendo-os perecer; não será demorado para com o que o odeia; prontamente, lho retribuirá. 11 Guarda, pois, os mandamentos, e os estatutos, e os juízos que hoje te mando cumprir.

12 Será, pois, que, se, ouvindo estes juízos, os guardares e cumprires, o Senhor, teu Deus, te guardará a aliança e a misericórdia prometida sob juramento a teus pais; 13 ele te amará, e te abençoará, e te fará multiplicar; também abençoará os teus filhos, e o fruto da tua terra, e o teu cereal, e o teu vinho, e o teu azeite, e as crias das tuas vacas e das tuas ovelhas, na terra que, sob juramento a teus pais, prometeu dar-te. 14 Bendito serás mais do que todos os povos; não haverá entre ti nem homem, nem mulher estéril, nem entre os teus animais. 15 O Senhor afastará de ti toda enfermidade; sobre ti não porá nenhuma das doenças malignas dos egípcios, que bem sabes; antes, as porá sobre todos os que te odeiam. 16 Consumirás todos os povos que te der o Senhor, teu Deus; os teus olhos não terão piedade deles, nem servirás a seus deuses, pois isso te seria por ciladas.

17 Se disseres no teu coração: Estas nações são mais numerosas do que eu; como poderei desapossá-las? 18 Delas não tenhas temor; lembrar-te-ás do que o Senhor, teu Deus, fez a Faraó e a todo o Egito; 19 das grandes provas que viram os teus olhos, e dos sinais, e maravilhas, e mão poderosa, e braço estendido, com que o Senhor, teu Deus, te tirou; assim fará o Senhor, teu Deus, com todos os povos, aos quais temes. 20 Além disso, o Senhor, teu Deus, mandará entre eles vespões, até que pereçam os que ficarem e se esconderem de diante de ti. 21 Não te espantes diante deles, porque o Senhor, teu Deus, está no meio de ti, Deus grande e temível. 22 O Senhor, teu Deus, lançará fora estas nações, pouco a pouco, de diante de ti; não poderás destruí-las todas de pronto, para que as feras do campo se não multipliquem contra ti. 23 Mas o Senhor, teu Deus, tas entregará e lhes infligirá grande confusão, até que sejam destruídas. 24 Entregar-te-á também nas mãos os seus reis, para que apagues o nome deles de debaixo dos céus; nenhum homem poderá resistir-te, até que os destruas. 25 As imagens de escultura de seus deuses queimarás; a prata e o ouro que estão sobre elas não cobiçarás, nem os tomarás para ti, para que te não enlaces neles; pois são abominação ao Senhor, teu Deus. 26 Não meterás, pois, coisa abominável em tua casa, para que não sejas amaldiçoado, semelhante a ela; de todo, a detestarás e, de todo, a abominarás, pois é amaldiçoada.

1 When Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before thee, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; 2 and when Jehovah thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them; then thou shalt utterly destroy them: thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them; 3 neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. 4 For he will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of Jehovah be kindled against you, and he will destroy thee quickly. 5 But thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.

6 For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God: Jehovah thy God hath chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth. 7 Jehovah did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all peoples: 8 but because Jehovah loveth you, and because he would keep the oath which he sware unto your fathers, hath Jehovah brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that Jehovah thy God, he is God, the faithful God, who keepeth covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations, 10 and repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face. 11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command thee this day, to do them.

12 And it shall come to pass, because ye hearken to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that Jehovah thy God will keep with thee the covenant and the lovingkindness which he sware unto thy fathers: 13 and he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; he will also bless the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy ground, thy grain and thy new wine and thine oil, the increase of thy cattle and the young of thy flock, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 14 Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. 15 And Jehovah will take away from thee all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, will he put upon thee, but will lay them upon all them that hate thee. 16 And thou shalt consume all the peoples that Jehovah thy God shall deliver unto thee; thine eye shall not pity them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.

17 If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them? 18 thou shalt not be afraid of them: thou shalt well remember what Jehovah thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt; 19 the great trials which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, whereby Jehovah thy God brought thee out: so shall Jehovah thy God do unto all the peoples of whom thou art afraid. 20 Moreover Jehovah thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves, perish from before thee. 21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them; for Jehovah thy God is in the midst of thee, a great God and a terrible. 22 And Jehovah thy God will cast 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. 23 But Jehovah thy God will deliver them up before thee, and will discomfit them with a great discomfiture, until they be destroyed. 24 And he will deliver their kings into thy hand, and thou shalt make their name to perish from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them. 25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein; for it is an abomination to Jehovah thy God. 26 And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house, and become a devoted thing like unto it: thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.

1 When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations —the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you —

2 and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. "Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.

3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

4 for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods, and the LORD's anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you.

5 This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles "and burn their idols in the fire.

6 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.

7 The LORD did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

8 But it was because the LORD loved you and kept the oath he swore to your ancestors that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

9 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.

10 But those who hate him he will repay to their face by destruction; he will not be slow to repay to their face those who hate him.

11 Therefore, take care to follow the commands, decrees and laws I give you today.

12 If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the LORD your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your ancestors.

13 He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land —your grain, new wine and olive oil —the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.

14 You will be blessed more than any other people; none of your men or women will be childless, nor will any of your livestock be without young.

15 The LORD will keep you free from every disease. He will not inflict on you the horrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but he will inflict them on all who hate you.

16 You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God gives over to you. Do not look on them with pity and do not serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

17 You may say to yourselves, "These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?"

18 But do not be afraid of them; remember well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.

19 You saw with your own eyes the great trials, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand and outstretched arm, with which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.

20 Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet among them until even the survivors who hide from you have perished.

21 Do not be terrified by them, for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God.

22 The LORD your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little. You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you.

23 But the LORD your God will deliver them over to you, throwing them into great confusion until they are destroyed.

24 He will give their kings into your hand, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand up against you; you will destroy them.

25 The images of their gods you are to burn in the fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the LORD your God.

26 Do not bring a detestable thing into your house or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. Regard it as vile and utterly detest it, for it is set apart for destruction.