Verse 2
Deuteronomy 7:2
Literal Standard Version
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and your God (Elohim) YHWH has given them before you, then you have struck them—you utterly devote them—you do not make a covenant with them, nor do you favor them.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וּ/נְתָנָ֞/ם יְהוָ֧ה אֱלֹהֶ֛י/ךָ לְ/פָנֶ֖י/ךָ וְ/הִכִּיתָ֑/ם הַחֲרֵ֤ם תַּחֲרִים֙ אֹתָ֔/ם לֹא תִכְרֹ֥ת לָ/הֶ֛ם בְּרִ֖ית וְ/לֹ֥א תְחָנֵּֽ/ם
English Translation
And you shall give over to the Lord your God before you, and you shall strike them; you shall utterly destroy them. You shall not make a covenant with them, nor shall you show them mercy.
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Chapter 7 Context
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“When your God (Elohim) YHWH brings you into the land to where you are going in to possess it, and H...
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and your God (Elohim) YHWH has given them before you, then you have struck them—you utterly devote t...
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And you do not join in marriage with them; you do not give your daughter to his son, and you do not...
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for he turns aside your son from after Me, and they have served other gods; and the anger of YHWH ha...
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But thus you do to them: you break down their altars, and you shatter their standing pillars, and yo...
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For you are a holy people to your God (Elohim) YHWH; your God (Elohim) YHWH has fixed on you, to be...
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YHWH has delighted in you and fixes on you, not because of your being more numerous than any of the...
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but because of YHWH’s loving you, and because of His keeping the oath which He has sworn to your fat...
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And you have known that He, your God (Elohim) YHWH, is God (Elohim), the faithful God (Elohim) keepi...
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and repaying to those hating Him to their face, to destroy them; He does not delay to him who is hat...
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And you have kept the command, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I am commanding you today...
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And it has been, because you hear these judgments, and have kept and done them, that your God (Elohi...
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and has loved you, and blessed you, and multiplied you, and has blessed the fruit of your womb, and...
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Blessed are you above all the peoples; there is not a barren man or a barren woman in you—nor among...
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and YHWH has turned aside every sickness from you, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt (which you...
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And you have consumed all the peoples whom your God (Elohim) YHWH is giving to you; your eye has no...
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When you say in your heart, These nations are more numerous than I, how am I able to dispossess them...
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You are not afraid of them; you surely remember that which your God (Elohim) YHWH has done to Pharao...
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the great trials which your eyes have seen, and the signs, and the wonders, and the strong hand, and...
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And your God (Elohim) YHWH also sends the locust among them, until the destruction of those who are...
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you are not terrified by their presence, for your God (Elohim) YHWH is in your midst, a God (Elohim)...
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And your God (Elohim) YHWH has cast out these nations from your presence little by little (you are n...
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and your God (Elohim) YHWH has given them before you, and confused them with a great destruction unt...
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and He has given their kings into your hand, and you have destroyed their name from under the heaven...
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You burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you do not desire the silver and gold on them, n...
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and you do not bring in an abomination to your house, or you have been devoted like it—you utterly d...
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