Deuteronomy 7
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Intercourse with the Canaanites forbidden
Verse 1
WEB When Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, 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 you;
KJV When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
TSK the Lord: de 4:38, de 6:1,10,19,23, de 9:1,4, de 11:29, de 31:3,20, ex 6:8, ex 15:7, nu 14:31, ps 44:2,3, ps 78:55; the Hittites: ge 15:18-21, ex 23:28, ex 33:2; greater: de 4:38, de 4:1-3, de 20:1
Verse 2
WEB and when Yahweh your God shall deliver them up before you, and you shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;
KJV 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:
TSK deliver: de 7:23,24, de 3:3, de 23:14, ge 14:20, jos 10:24,25,30,32,42, jos 21:44, jud 1:4; utterly: de 20:16,17, le 27:28,29, nu 33:52, jos 6:17-25, jos 8:24, jos 9:24, jos 10:28,40, jos 11:11,12; make no: de 20:10,11, ex 23:32,33, ex 34:12-16, jos 2:14, jos 9:18-21, jud 1:24, jud 2:2, 2sa 21:2
Verse 3
WEB neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.
KJV 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.
TSK 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.: ge 6:2,3, ex 34:15,16, jos 23:12,13, jud 3:6,7, 1ki 11:2, ezr 9:1,2, ne 13:23-27, 2co 6:14-17
Verse 4
WEB For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so the anger of Yahweh would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.
KJV For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
TSK so will: de 6:15, de 32:16,17, ex 20:5, jud 2:11,20, jud 3:7,8, jud 10:6,7
Verse 5
WEB But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, and dash their pillars in pieces, and cut down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.
KJV 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 with fire.
TSK destroy: de 12:2,3, ex 23:24, ex 34:13, 2ki 23:6-14; images: de 16:22, le 26:1; and cut: jud 6:25,26; burn: de 7:25, de 9:21, ex 32:20
Verse 6
WEB For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God: Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
KJV For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
TSK an holy: de 14:2, de 26:19, de 28:9, ex 19:5,6, ps 50:5, jer 2:3, am 3:2, 1co 6:19,20, tit 2:14, 2pe 2:5,9; to be a special: mal 3:17, tit 2:14
Verse 7
WEB Yahweh didn’t set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:
KJV The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
TSK The Lord: ps 115:1, ro 9:11-15,18,21, ro 11:6, 1jo 3:1, 1jo 4:10; ye were: de 10:22, isa 51:2, mt 7:14, lu 12:32, ro 9:27-29
Verse 8
WEB but because Yahweh loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, has Yahweh brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
KJV But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
TSK because: de 4:37, de 9:4,5, de 10:15, 1sa 12:22, 2sa 22:20, ps 44:3, isa 43:4, jer 31:3, zep 3:17, mt 11:26, eph 2:4,5, 2th 2:13,14, tit 3:3-7, 1jo 4:19; oath: ge 22:16-18, ex 32:13, ps 105:8-10,42, lu 1:55,72,73, heb 6:13-17; Lord brought: de 4:20,34, ex 12:41,42, ex 13:3,14, ex 20:2
Verse 9
WEB Know therefore that Yahweh your God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
KJV Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
TSK the faithful: ex 34:6,7, ps 119:75, ps 146:6, isa 49:7, la 3:23, 1co 1:9, 1co 10:3, 2co 1:18, 1th 5:24, 2th 3:3, 2ti 2:13, tit 1:2, heb 6:18, heb 10:23, heb 11:11, 1jo 1:9; which keepeth: de 5:10, ge 17:7, ex 20:6, ne 1:5, da 9:4, ro 8:28, 1co 8:3, jas 1:12; a thousand: 1ch 16:15
Verse 10
WEB and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him who hates him, he will repay him to his face.
KJV And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
TSK repayeth: de 7:9, de 32:35,41, ps 21:8,9, pr 11:31, isa 59:18, na 1:2, ro 12:19; slack: de 32:25, 2pe 3:9,10; hateth: ex 20:5, joh 15:23-24
Verse 11
WEB You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.
KJV Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
TSK Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.: de 4:1, de 5:32, joh 14:15
Promises if they were obedient
Verse 12
WEB It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers:
KJV Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
TSK if: de 28:1, le 26:3; Lord: de 7:9, ps 105:8-10, mic 7:20, lu 1:55,72,73
Verse 13
WEB and he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.
KJV And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
TSK he will love: de 7:7, de 28:4, ex 23:25, ps 1:3, ps 11:7, ps 144:12-15, joh 14:21, joh 15:10, joh 16:27; he will also: de 28:3-5,11,15-18, job 42:12, pr 10:22, mal 3:10,11, mt 6:33
Verse 14
WEB You shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.
KJV Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
TSK blessed: de 33:29, ps 115:15, ps 147:19,20; male or: de 28:4,11, ex 23:26-33, le 26:9, ps 127:3
Verse 15
WEB Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, he will put on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you.
KJV And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
TSK will put none: le 26:3,4; will put none: de 28:27,60, ex 9:11, ex 15:26, ps 105:36,37
Verse 16
WEB You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you.
KJV And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
TSK thine eye: de 13:8, de 19:13,21, de 25:12, jer 21:7; for that will: de 12:30,31, ex 23:33, ex 34:12-16, nu 33:55, jos 23:13-16, jud 2:3,12, jud 3:6, jud 8:27, ps 106:36, 1co 15:33
Verse 17
WEB If you shall say in your heart, “These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?”
KJV If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
TSK thou shalt: de 8:17, de 15:9, de 18:21, isa 14:13, isa 47:8, isa 49:21, jer 13:22, lu 9:47; These nations: nu 13:32, nu 33:53, jos 17:16-18
Verse 18
WEB you shall not be afraid of them: you shall well remember what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt;
KJV Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
TSK shalt not: de 1:29, de 3:6, de 31:6, ps 27:1,2, ps 46:1,2, isa 41:10-14; remember: ex 7:1-14, jud 6:13, ps 77:11, ps 78:11,42-51, ps 105:5,26-36, ps 135:8-10, ps 136:10-15, isa 51:9,10, isa 63:11-15
Verse 19
WEB the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out: so shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
KJV The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.
TSK great: de 4:34, de 11:2-4, de 29:3, ne 9:10,11, jer 32:20,21, eze 20:6-9; so shall: jos 3:10
Verse 20
WEB Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.
KJV Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
TSK the hornet: ex 23:28-30, jos 24:12
Verse 21
WEB You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is in the midst of you, a great and awesome God.
KJV Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
TSK the Lord: nu 9:20, nu 14:9,14,42, nu 16:3, nu 23:21, jos 3:10, 2ch 32:8, ps 46:5,7,11, isa 8:9,10, zec 2:10,11, 1co 14:25; a mighty God: de 10:17, de 25:8, 1sa 4:8, ne 1:5, ne 4:14, ne 9:32, zec 12:2-5
Verse 22
WEB Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.
KJV And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
TSK put out: ex 23:29,30, jos 15:63
Verse 23
WEB But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they be destroyed.
KJV But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
TSK unto thee: de 9:3; shall destroy: de 2:15, de 8:20, isa 13:6, jer 17:18, joe 1:15, 2th 1:9
Verse 24
WEB He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name to perish from under the sky: no man shall be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.
KJV And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
TSK he shall: jos 10:24,25,42, jos 12:1-6; their name: de 9:14, de 25:19, de 29:20, ex 17:14, ps 9:5, pr 10:7, jer 10:11, zep 1:4; there shall: de 11:25, jos 1:5, jos 10:8, jos 23:9, isa 54:17, ro 8:37, 1co 15:57
Verse 25
WEB You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
KJV The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.
TSK graven: de 7:5, de 12:3, ex 32:20, 1ch 14:12, isa 30:22; thou shalt: jos 7:1,21; snared: jud 8:24-27, zep 1:3, 1ti 6:9,10; an abomination: de 17:1, de 23:18, re 17:5
Verse 26
WEB You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
KJV Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
TSK shalt: de 13:17, le 27:28,29, jos 6:17-24, jos 7:1-25,11-26, eze 14:7, hab 2:9-11, zec 5:4; but thou shalt: isa 2:20, isa 30:22, eze 11:18, ho 14:8, ro 2:22