1 When Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations from before thee, 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,

2 and when Jehovah thy God shall give them up before thee and thou shalt smite them, then shalt thou utterly destroy them: thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them.

3 And thou shalt make no marriages with them: thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor take his daughter for thy son;

4 for he will turn away thy son from following me, and they will serve other gods, and the anger of Jehovah will 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 shatter their statues, and hew down their Asherahs, and burn their graven images with fire.

6 For a holy people art thou unto Jehovah thy God: Jehovah thy God hath chosen thee to be unto him a people for a possession, above all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

7 Not because ye were more in number than all the peoples, hath Jehovah been attached to you and chosen you, for ye are the fewest of all the peoples;

8 but because Jehovah loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath Jehovah brought you out with a powerful hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

9 And thou shalt know that Jehovah thy God, he is God, the faithful *God, who keepeth covenant and mercy to a thousand generations with them that love him and keep his commandments;

10 and repayeth them that hate him {each} to his face, to cause them to perish: he delayeth not with him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.

11 And thou shalt 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, if ye hearken to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that Jehovah thy God will keep with thee the covenant and the mercy which he swore unto thy fathers;

13 and he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee, and will bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, thy corn and thy new wine, and thine oil, the offspring of thy kine, and the increase of thy sheep, in the land which he swore unto thy fathers to give thee.

14 Thou shalt be blessed above all the peoples; there shall not be male or female barren with thee, or with thy cattle;

15 and Jehovah will take away from thee all sickness, and none of the evil infirmities of Egypt, which thou knowest, will he put upon thee; but he will lay them upon all them that hate thee.

16 And thou shalt consume all the peoples that Jehovah thy God will give up unto thee; thine eye shall not spare them, and thou shalt not serve their gods; for that would be a snare unto thee.

17 If thou shouldest say in thy heart, These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?

18 fear them not; remember well what Jehovah thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all the Egyptians;

19 the great trials which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the powerful hand, and the stretched-out arm, whereby Jehovah thy God brought thee out: so will Jehovah thy God do unto all the peoples whom thou fearest.

20 Moreover, Jehovah thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and they that hide themselves from thee, are destroyed.

21 Thou shalt not be afraid of them; for Jehovah thy God is in thy midst, a *God great and terrible.

22 And Jehovah thy God will cast out those nations from before thee by little and little; thou shalt not be able to make an end of them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.

23 But Jehovah thy God will give them up before thee, and will confound them with great consternation, until they are destroyed.

24 And he will give their kings into thy hand, and thou shalt put out their name from under the heavens; no man shall stand before thee, until thou hast destroyed them.

25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire; thou shalt not covet the silver and gold {that is} on them and take it unto thee, lest thou be ensnared therein; for it is an abomination to Jehovah thy God.

26 And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

1 "耶和华你的 神领你进入你要去得为业的地， 从你面前赶走许多民族， 就是赫人、革迦撒人、亚摩利人、迦南人、比利洗人、希未人、耶布斯人， 共七个比你又大又强的民族。

2 耶和华你的 神把他们交给你， 你打败了他们的时候， 你要完全毁灭他们， 不可与他们立约， 也不可恩待他们。

3 不可与他们通婚， 不可把你的女儿嫁给他们的儿子， 也不可为你的儿子娶他们的女儿。

4 因为他必使你的儿子离开我， 去事奉别的神， 以致耶和华向你们发烈怒， 就快快地把你们消灭。

5 你们却要这样待他们： 拆毁他们的祭坛， 打碎他们的神柱， 砍下他们的亚舍拉， 用火焚烧他们的雕像。

6 "因为你是归耶和华你的 神作圣洁的子民的； 耶和华你的 神从地上的万族中， 拣选了你作他自己的产业， 自己的子民。

7 耶和华喜爱你们， 拣选你们， 并不是因为你们的人数比别的民族多， 其实你们的人数在万族中是最少的；

8 而是因为耶和华对你们的爱， 又因为他遵守他向你们的列祖所起的誓， 他才用大能的手把你们领出来， 把你们从为奴之家， 从埃及王法老的手里拯救出来。

9 所以你要知道耶和华你的 神， 他是 神， 是信实可靠的 神； 他向爱他和守他诫命的人， 守约并且施慈爱， 直到千代。

10 但向恨他的人， 却要当面报应他们， 把他们灭尽； 恨他的， 他都要当面报应他， 决不迟延。

11 所以你要谨守遵行我今日吩咐你的诫命、律例和典章。

12 "如果你们听从这些典章， 并且谨守遵行这一切， 耶和华你的 神就必照着他向你的列祖所起的誓， 向你守约并且施慈爱。

13 他必爱你， 赐福与你， 使你人数增多， 也必在他向你的列祖起誓应许给你的地上， 赐福与你身所生的， 你地所产的， 使你的五谷、酒、油， 以及牛犊和羊羔增产。

14 你必蒙福胜过万民； 在你中间没有不能生育的男女， 也没有不能生殖的牲畜。

15 耶和华必使一切病症离开你； 你所知埃及各种的恶疾， 他决不加在你身上， 却加在一切恨你的人身上。

16 耶和华你的 神交给你的所有民族， 你都要把他们消灭； 你的眼不可怜惜他们； 你也不可事奉他们的神， 因为这必成为你的网罗。

17 "如果你心里说： ‘这些国的人比我多， 我怎能把他们赶出去呢？’

18 你不要怕他们， 只要牢牢地记住， 耶和华你的 神向法老和全埃及所行的事，

19 就是你亲眼看见的大试验、神迹、奇事、大能的手和伸出来的膀臂， 这都是耶和华你的 神领你出来的时候使用的； 耶和华你的 神也必照样待你惧怕的所有民族。

20 耶和华你的 神还要打发大黄蜂飞到他们中间， 直到那些残存躲藏起来的人， 都从你面前消灭为止。

21 你不要因他们惊慌， 因为耶和华你的 神是在你们中间， 他是大而可畏的 神。

22 耶和华你的 神必把这些国的民， 从你面前渐渐赶出去； 你不可以把他们迅速地灭尽， 恐怕田间的野兽多起来害你。

23 耶和华你的 神必把他们交在你面前， 使他们大起扰乱， 直到他们全被消灭。

24 他也必把他们的君王交在你的手中， 你必使他们的名从天下消灭； 必没有一人能在你面前站立得住， 直到你把他们都消灭了。

25 他们的神像， 你们要用火焚烧； 神像上的金银， 你不可贪爱， 也不可据为己有， 免得你因此陷入网罗； 因为这是耶和华你的 神厌恶的。

26 可厌恶的物， 你不可带进家里去， 免得你与那物一样成了当毁灭的； 你要非常憎恨它， 十分厌恶它， 因为这是当毁灭的物。"