Deuteronomy
Chapter 7
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1When God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God brings you into the land you are going to, to take possession of it, and he clears away many nations from before you, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and stronger than you,
2and God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God gives them over before you, and you strike them, you shall devote them, devote them. You shall not cut a A solemn agreement that binds God and people. with them, and you shall not show them favor.
3You shall not make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, and you shall not take his daughter for your son,
4for he would turn your son away from following me, and they would serve other gods, and the anger of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. would burn against you, and he would destroy you quickly.
5This is what you shall do to them. Their altars you shall tear down, their standing stones you shall break, their Asherah posts you shall cut down, and their carved images you shall burn with fire.
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Matsevah is a standing stone. Asherah is the wooden post. The name is kept. Pesel is a carved image.
6For you are a people set apart to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God. God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God has chosen you to be a people of his own treasure, out of all the peoples on the face of the soil.
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Qadosh is set apart. Segullah is a treasured possession, a people kept as his own.
7It was not because you were more than all the peoples that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. attached himself to you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all the peoples.
8Because God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. loved you, and because he kept the oath that he swore to your fathers, God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. brought you out with a strong hand and Bought back. you from a slave house, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9Know that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps the A solemn agreement that binds God and people. and the loyalty for those who love him and keep his command, to a thousand generations,
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Chesed is loyalty. See the glossary. Berit is covenant.
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The written consonants are מצותו, without the yod. The Masoretic reading is מצותיו, “his commands,” with the yod. The written form is printed as “his command.”
10and who repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not delay with the one who hates him. He will repay him to his face.
11You shall keep the command, the Rules that are meant to last., and the rules that I am commanding you today, to do them.
12Because you listen to these rules, and keep them and do them, God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God will keep for you the A solemn agreement that binds God and people. and the loyalty that he swore to your fathers.
13He will love you, bless you, and make you many. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain, your new wine, and your oil, the offspring of your cattle and the young of your flock, on the ground that he swore to your fathers to give you.
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Shegar is the offspring of the herd. Ashtarot is the young of the flock. The line is about increase, not a goddess’s name.
14You shall be blessed more than all the peoples. There shall be no Unable to have a child. male or Unable to have a child. female among you, or among your livestock.
15God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. will turn away from you every sickness, and all the evil diseases of Egypt that you knew he will not set on you, and he will put them on all who hate you.
16You shall eat up all the peoples that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is giving you. Your eye shall not pity them, and you shall not serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.
17If you say in your heart, These nations are more numerous than I am. How can I dispossess them?
18you shall not be afraid of them. You shall remember, remember what God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt,
19the great tests that your eyes saw, and the signs and the wonders, and the strong hand and the outstretched arm, by which God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God brought you out. God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God will do the same to all the peoples you are afraid of.
20God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God will also send the hornet among them, until those who are left and those who hide themselves perish from before you.
21You shall not be terrified before them, for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is in your midst, a great and dreaded God.
22God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God will clear away these nations from before you little by little. You will not be able to finish them quickly, or the animals of the field would become too many for you.
23God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God will give them over before you and throw them into a great panic until they are destroyed.
24He will give their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under the sky. No man shall stand before you until you have destroyed them.
25The carved images of their gods you shall burn with fire. You shall not desire the silver and gold on them and take it for yourself, or you would be snared by it, for it is an Something God hates and will not accept. of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God.
26You shall not bring an Something God hates and will not accept. into your house, and become devoted like it. You shall detest it, detest it, and abhor it, abhor it, for it is devoted.
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Cherem is devoted, set apart for destruction. To take it is to become devoted with it.