Apr.
26
Deuteronomy
7, 8
Deu
7:1 When Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go
to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, 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 you;
Deu
7:2 and when Yahweh your God shall deliver them up before you, and
you shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall
make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;
Deu
7:3 neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you
shall not give to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your
son.
Deu
7:4 For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may
serve other gods: so the anger of Yahweh would be kindled against
you, and he would destroy you quickly.
Deu
7:5 But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down
their altars, and dash their pillars in pieces, and cut down their
Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.
Deu
7:6 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.
Deu
7:7 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:
Deu
7:8 but because Yahweh loves you, and because he would keep the oath
which he swore to your fathers, has Yahweh brought you out with a
mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the
hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Deu
7:9 Know therefore that Yahweh your God, he is God, the faithful
God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him
and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
Deu
7:10 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.
Deu
7:11 You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and
the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.
Deu
7:12 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:
Deu
7:13 and he will love you, and 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.
Deu
7:14 You shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male
or female barren among you, or among your livestock.
Deu
7:15 Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and none of the
evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, he will put on you, but will
lay them on all those who hate you.
Deu
7:16 You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall
deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve
their gods; for that will be a snare to you.
Deu
7:17 If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I;
how can I dispossess them?
Deu
7:18 you shall not be afraid of them: you shall well remember what
Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt;
Deu
7:19 the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the
wonders, and 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.
Deu
7:20 Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until
those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.
Deu
7:21 You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is in the
midst of you, a great and awesome God.
Deu
7:22 Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you by
little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the animals
of the field increase on you.
Deu
7:23 But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will
confuse them with a great confusion, until they be destroyed.
Deu
7:24 He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make
their name to perish from under the sky: there shall no man be able
to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.
Deu
7:25 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.
Deu
7:26 You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become
a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it, and you shall
utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
Deu
8:1 You shall observe to do all the commandment which I command you
this day, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the
land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.
Deu
8:2 You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you
these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to
prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his
commandments, or not.
Deu
8:3 He humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with
manna, which you didn't know, neither did your fathers know; that he
might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by
everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh does man live.
Deu
8:4 Your clothing didn't grow old on you, neither did your foot
swell, these forty years.
Deu
8:5 You shall consider in your heart that as a man chastens his son,
so Yahweh your God chastens you.
Deu
8:6 You shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in
his ways, and to fear him.
Deu
8:7 For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of
brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into
valleys and hills;
Deu
8:8 a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and
pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;
Deu
8:9 a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you
shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out
of whose hills you may dig copper.
Deu
8:10 You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God
for the good land which he has given you.
Deu
8:11 Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his
commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command
you this day:
Deu
8:12 lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly
houses, and lived therein;
Deu
8:13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver
and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
Deu
8:14 then your heart be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God,
who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage;
Deu
8:15 who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, in
which were fiery serpents and scorpions,
and thirsty ground where there was no water; who brought you forth
water out of the rock of flint;
Deu
8:16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers
didn't know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you,
to do you good at your latter end:
Deu
8:17 and lest
you say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten
me this wealth.
Deu
8:18 But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives
you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he
swore to your fathers, as at this day.
Deu
8:19 It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk
after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against
you this day that you shall surely perish.
Deu
8:20 As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you
shall perish; because you wouldn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your
God.