Deuteronomy 7:2

7:2 and he9 delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate10 them. Make no treaty11 with them and show them no mercy!

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9	tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.
10	tn In the Hebrew text the infinitive absolute before the finite verb emphasizes the statement. The imperfect has an obligatory nuance here. Cf. ASV “shalt (must NRSV) utterly destroy them”; CEV “must destroy them without mercy.”
11	tn Heb “covenant” (so NASB, NRSV); TEV “alliance.”