1 When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you—the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite—seven nations greater and mightier than you; 2 and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them. 3 You shall not make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son. 4 For that would turn away your sons from following me, that they may serve other gods. So Yahweh’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly. 5 But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their engraved images with fire. 6 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7 Yahweh didn’t set his love on you nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples; 8 but because Yahweh loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Yahweh has 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 Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness to a thousand generations with those who love him and keep his commandments, 10 and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates him. He will repay him to his face. 11 You shall therefore keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances which I command you today, to do them. 12 It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers. 13 He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you. 14 You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock. 15 Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and he will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you. 16 You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you. Your eye shall not pity them. You shall not serve their gods; for that would be a snare to you. 17 If you shall say in your heart, "These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?" 18 you shall not be afraid of them. You shall remember well what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt: 19 the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out. So shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. 20 Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you. 21 You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is among you, a great and awesome God. 22 Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you. 23 But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they are destroyed. 24 He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under the sky. No one will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them. 25 You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God. 26 You shall not bring an abomination into your house and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it. You shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted 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。"