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.
13. He will love you, 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.
14. You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren amongst you, or amongst your livestock.
15. The Lord will take away from you all sickness; and he will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you.
16. You shall consume all the peoples whom the Lord your God shall deliver to you. Your eye shall not pity them. You shall not serve their gods; for that would be a snare to you.
17. If you shall say in your heart, “These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?”
18. you shall not be afraid of them. You shall remember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt:
19. the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the Lord your God brought you out. So shall the Lord your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.