7“When the Lord your God brings you into the land^a you are entering to possess,^b and he drives out many nations before you—the Hethites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations^c more numerous and powerful than you^d—²and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must completely destroy^e them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.^f ³You must not intermarry with them, and you must not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,^g ⁴because they will turn your sons away from me to worship other gods.^h Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you,ⁱ and he will swiftly 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,^j and burn their carved images. ⁶For you are a holy people^k belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be his own possession^l out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

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Cross references

a Ex 23:23–26
b Dt 3:12
c Ac 13:19
d Ex 1:9
e Dt 20:17
f Pr 6:34; Is 9:17; 13:18; 27:11; 47:6; Jr 13:14; Hs 1:6,8; 2:4,23
g Jos 23:12–13; 1Kg 11:1–2; Ezr 9:12,14
h Dt 13:6,13; 17:3; 28:36,64; 29:26; Jos 23:16; 24:16; 1Sm 26:19; Jr 16:13
i Ex 22:24; Dt 11:17; 31:17; Jos 23:16
j Ex 34:13; Dt 12:2–3; Jdg 2:2
k Ex 22:31; Dt 14:2,21; 26:19; 28:9; Ps 16:3; Is 62:12; 63:18; Dn 8:24; 12:7
l Ex 19:5; Dt 14:2; 26:18–19; Ps 135:4; Ec 2:8; Mal 3:17