Deuteronomy 7:1–6

Warnings

¹“^aWhen the Lord your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and 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 greater and stronger than you,

²and when the Lord your God delivers them before you and you ¹defeat them, ^athen you shall ²utterly destroy them. ^bYou shall make 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 to serve other gods; then the anger of the Lord 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 smash their sacred pillars, and hew down their ¹Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.

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