| Berean Study Bible | NET Bible |
| 1When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you— | 1When the LORD your God brings you to the land that you are going to occupy and forces out many nations before you--Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you-- |
| 2and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy. | 2and he delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy! |
| 3Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, | 3You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, |
| 4because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you. | 4for they will turn your sons away from me to worship other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will erupt against you and he will quickly destroy you. |
| 5Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire. | 5Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, cut down their sacred Asherah poles, and burn up their idols. |
| 6For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth. | 6For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth. |
| 7The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. | 7It is not because you were more numerous than all the other peoples that the LORD favored and chose you--for in fact you were the least numerous of all peoples. |
| 8But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. | 8Rather it is because of his love for you and his faithfulness to the promise he solemnly vowed to your ancestors that the LORD brought you out with great power, redeeming you from the place of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. |
| 9Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments. | 9So realize that the LORD your God is the true God, the faithful God who keeps covenant faithfully with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, |
| 10But those who hate Him He repays to their faces with destruction; He will not hesitate to repay to his face the one who hates Him. | 10but who pays back those who hate him as they deserve and destroys them. He will not ignore those who hate him but will repay them as they deserve! |
| 11So keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances that I am giving you to follow this day. | 11So keep the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that I today am commanding you to do. |
| 12If you listen to these ordinances and keep them carefully, then the LORD your God will keep His covenant and the loving devotion that He swore to your fathers. | 12If you obey these ordinances and are careful to do them, the LORD your God will faithfully keep covenant with you as he promised your ancestors. |
| 13He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you. | 13He will love and bless you, and make you numerous. He will bless you with many children, with the produce of your soil, your grain, your new wine, your oil, the offspring of your oxen, and the young of your flocks in the land which he promised your ancestors to give you. |
| 14You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock. | 14You will be blessed beyond all peoples; there will be no barrenness among you or your livestock. |
| 15And the LORD will remove from you all sickness. He will not lay upon you any of the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but He will inflict them on all who hate you. | 15The LORD will protect you from all sickness, and you will not experience any of the terrible diseases that you knew in Egypt; instead he will inflict them on all those who hate you. |
| 16You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you. | 16You must destroy all the people whom the LORD your God is about to deliver over to you; you must not pity them or worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you. |
| 17You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?” | 17If you think, "These nations are more numerous than I--how can I dispossess them?" |
| 18But do not be afraid of them. Be sure to remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt: | 18you must not fear them. You must carefully recall what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt, |
| 19the great trials that you saw, the signs and wonders, and the mighty hand and outstretched arm by which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear. | 19the great judgments you saw, the signs and wonders, the strength and power by which he brought you out--thus the LORD your God will do to all the people you fear. |
| 20Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet against them until even the survivors hiding from you have perished. | 20Furthermore, the LORD your God will release hornets among them until the very last ones who hide from you perish. |
| 21Do not be terrified by them, for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God. | 21You must not tremble in their presence, for the LORD your God, who is present among you, is a great and awesome God. |
| 22The LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be enabled to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals would multiply around you. | 22He, the God who leads you, will expel the nations little by little. You will not be allowed to destroy them all at once lest the wild animals overrun you. |
| 23But the LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed. | 23The LORD your God will give them over to you; he will throw them into a great panic until they are destroyed. |
| 24He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them. | 24He will hand over their kings to you and you will erase their very names from memory. Nobody will be able to resist you until you destroy them. |
| 25You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God. | 25You must burn the images of their gods, but do not covet the silver and gold that covers them so much that you take it for yourself and thus become ensnared by it; for it is abhorrent to the LORD your God. |
| 26And you must not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction. | 26You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath along with it. You must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is an object of divine wrath. |
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