2. and when the Lord your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.
3. You shall not make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.
4. For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods. So the Lord’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.
5. But you shall deal with them like this. You shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their engraved images with fire.
6. For you are a holy people to the Lord your God. the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
7. The Lord 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:
8. but because the Lord loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9. Know therefore that the Lord your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
10. 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.
11. You shall therefore keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you today, to do them.
12. It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers.