9. Know, then, that the Lord, your God, is God: the faithful God who keeps covenant mercy to the thousandth generation toward those who love him and keep his commandments,
10. but who repays with destruction those who hate him; he does not delay with those who hate him, but makes them pay for it.
11. Therefore carefully observe the commandment, the statutes and the ordinances which I command you today.
12. As your reward for heeding these ordinances and keeping them carefully, the Lord, your God, will keep with you the covenant mercy he promised on oath to your ancestors.
13. He will love and bless and multiply you; he will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your soil, your grain and wine and oil, the young of your herds and the offspring of your flocks, in the land which he swore to your ancestors he would give you.
14. You will be blessed above all peoples; no man or woman among you shall be childless nor shall your livestock be barren.
15. The Lord will remove all sickness from you; he will not afflict you with any of the malignant diseases that you know from Egypt, but will leave them with all those who hate you.
16. You shall consume all the peoples which the Lord, your God, is giving over to you. You are not to look on them with pity, nor serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.
17. If you say to yourselves, “These nations are more numerous than we. How can we dispossess them?”
18. do not be afraid of them. Rather, remember clearly what the Lord, your God, did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:
19. the great testings which your own eyes have seen, the signs and wonders, the strong hand and outstretched arm with which the Lord, your God, brought you out. The same also will he do to all the peoples of whom you are now afraid.
20. Moreover, the Lord, your God, will send hornets among them, until those who are left and those who are hiding from you are destroyed.
21. Therefore, do not be terrified by them, for the Lord, your God, who is in your midst, is a great and awesome God.
22. He will remove these nations before you little by little. You cannot finish with them quickly, lest the wild beasts become too numerous for you.
23. The Lord, your God, will give them over to you and throw them into utter panic until they are destroyed.