1. When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land into which thou must enter to inherit it and has cast out many Gentiles before thee, the Hittite and the Girgashite and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
2. and when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee, thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them nor show mercy unto them.
3. Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
4. For they will turn away thy son from following me that they may serve other gods; and the anger of the Lord will be kindled upon you and destroy thee suddenly.
5. But thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall destroy their altars and break down their images and cut down their groves and burn their graven images in the fire.
6. For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God; the Lord thy God has chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, different from all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
7. Not because ye were more than the other peoples has the Lord desired you and chosen you; for ye were the fewest of all the peoples;
8. but because the Lord loved you and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, has the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand and ransomed you out of the house of slavery from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.