CHAP. VII.
1 A commandement to root out the seven na∣tions in Canaan, 4 lest they corrupted Israel. 5 To abolish their idolatry. 6 The holinesse and election of Israel, whence it proceedeth, 9 and what use they should make thereof. 12 The blessings promised upon the keeping of the Law. 16 The commandement repea∣ted, to abolish Idolaters and their religion. 17 A confirmation of the faith of Israel against the multi∣tude of their enemies, 22 whom God promiseth to destroy, but not all at once. 25 The abomination of their idolatrie.
WHen Iehovah thy God shall [unspec 1] have brought thee in, into the land whither thou goest in, to possesse it, and hath cast out many nations from thy face; the Chethite, and the Girga∣site, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Pherizzite, and the Evite, and the Ie∣busite; seven nations, greater and mightier than thou. And Iehovah thy God shall have delivered them before thee, and thou shalt [unspec 2] smite them; utterly destroying thou shalt ut∣terly destroy them: thou shalt not strike any covenant with them, nor shew them grace.
Neither shalt thou make mariages with them: thy daughter thou shalt not give unto [unspec 3] his sonne, and his daughter thou shalt not take unto thy sonne. For hee will turne a∣way thy sonne from after me, that they may [unspec 4] serve other gods; and the anger of Iehovah will be kindled against you, and will destroy thee suddenly. But thus shall yee doe unto them; yee shall destroy their altars, and [unspec 5] breake downe their pillars, and cut downe their groves; and their graven Images yee shall burne with fire. For thou art an holy peo∣ple [unspec 6] unto Iehovah thy God: Iehovah thy God hath chosen thee to bee unto him a peculiar people, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth. Not for your multitude above all peoples did Iehovah set his love up∣on [unspec 7] you, and chose you, for ye were the fewest of all peoples. But because Iehovah loved [unspec 8] you, and because hee would keepe the oath which he had sworne unto your fathers, hath Iehovah brought you out with a strong hand, and hath redeemed thee out of the house of servants, out of the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that Iehovah [unspec 9] thy God, hee is God, the faithfull God, that keepeth covenant and mercy to them that love him, & that keepe his commandements, to the thousand generation. And repayeth [unspec 10] them that hate him unto his face, to destroy him: hee will not delay to him that hateth him, unto his face he will repay him. There∣fore [unspec 11] thou shalt keepe the commandement, and the statutes, and the judgments which I command thee this day, to doe them.
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And it shall be, because yee shall hearken [unspec 12] to these judgments, and shall keepe and doe them, that Iehovah thy God will keepe unto thee the covenant, and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers. And hee will love [unspec 13] thee, and will blesse thee, and multiply thee: and he will blesse the fruit of thy wombe, and the fruit of thy land, thy corne, and thy new wine, and thy new oyle, the increase of thy kine, and the flockes of thy sheepe, upon the land which hee sware unto thy fathers to give unto thee. Blessed shalt thou be above [unspec 14] all peoples: there shall not be a barren male, or a barren female, among thee, or among thy cattell. And Iehovah will take away [unspec 15] from thee all sicknesse, and all the evill disea∣ses of Egypt, which thou knowest, hee will not put upon thee, but will lay them upon all that hate thee. And thou shalt cat up all the [unspec 16] peoples which Iehovah thy God giveth unto thee; thine eye shall not spare them, neither shalt thou serve their gods, for that will be a snare unto thee. If thou shalt say in [unspec 17] thine heart, These nations are moe than I, how shall I be able to dispossesse them? Thou [unspec 18] shalt not bee afraid of them: remembring thou shalt remember that wch Iehovah thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt. The great tentations which thine eye saw, [unspec 19] and the signes, and the wonders, and the strong hand, and the stretched-out arme, with wch Iehovah thy God brought thee out: so will Iehovah thy God do unto all peoples, of whose faces thou art afraid. And also Iehovah [unspec 20] thy God will send the hornet among them.