Deuteronomy 7:1–6

Devote the Nations to Destruction

¹“^aWhen Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and He clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, ^bseven nations more numerous and stronger than you,

²and when Yahweh your God gives them over before you and you strike them down, ^athen you shall devote them to destruction. ^bYou shall cut no covenant with them ^cand show no favor to them.

³“Furthermore, ^ayou shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your ¹daughters to ²their sons, nor shall you take ³their daughters for your ⁴sons.

⁴“For ¹they will turn your ²sons away from ³following Me, and they will serve other gods; then the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you, and ^aHe will quickly destroy you.

⁵“But thus you shall do to them: ^ayou shall tear down their altars and shatter their sacred pillars and cut their ¹Asherim in pieces and burn their graven images with fire.

⁶“For you are ^aa holy people to Yahweh your God; Yahweh your God has chosen you to be ^ba people for His ¹own treasured possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the ²earth.