Deuteronomy 6:19   (Read all of Deuteronomy 6)

thrusting out all your enemies before you, as the Lord said.

Deuteronomy 6:20   (Read all of Deuteronomy 6)

In the future, when your son asks you, "What is the meaning of the stipulations, decrees and laws the Lord our God has commanded you?"

Deuteronomy 6:21   (Read all of Deuteronomy 6)

tell him: "We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Deuteronomy 6:22   (Read all of Deuteronomy 6)

Before our eyes the Lord sent signs and wonders-great and terrible-on Egypt and Pharaoh and his whole household.

Deuteronomy 6:24   (Read all of Deuteronomy 6)

The Lord commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the Lord our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today.

Deuteronomy 7:1   (Read all of Deuteronomy 7)

When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations-the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you-

Deuteronomy 7:2   (Read all of Deuteronomy 7)

and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.

Deuteronomy 7:3   (Read all of Deuteronomy 7)

Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

Deuteronomy 7:4   (Read all of Deuteronomy 7)

for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods, and the Lord's anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you.

Deuteronomy 7:5   (Read all of Deuteronomy 7)

This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire.

Deuteronomy 7:7   (Read all of Deuteronomy 7)

The Lord did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

Deuteronomy 7:8   (Read all of Deuteronomy 7)

But it was because the Lord loved you and kept the oath he swore to your ancestors that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 7:10   (Read all of Deuteronomy 7)

But those who hate him he will repay to their face by destruction; he will not be slow to repay to their face those who hate him.

Deuteronomy 7:12   (Read all of Deuteronomy 7)

If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the Lord your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your ancestors.

Deuteronomy 7:13   (Read all of Deuteronomy 7)

He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land-your grain, new wine and olive oil-the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.

Deuteronomy 7:16   (Read all of Deuteronomy 7)

You must destroy all the peoples the Lord your God gives over to you. Do not look on them with pity and do not serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

Deuteronomy 7:17   (Read all of Deuteronomy 7)

You may say to yourselves, "These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?"

Deuteronomy 7:19   (Read all of Deuteronomy 7)

You saw with your own eyes the great trials, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand and outstretched arm, with which the Lord your God brought you out. The Lord your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.

Deuteronomy 7:20   (Read all of Deuteronomy 7)

Moreover, the Lord your God will send the hornet among them until even the survivors who hide from you have perished.

Deuteronomy 7:24   (Read all of Deuteronomy 7)

He will give their kings into your hand, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand up against you; you will destroy them.

Deuteronomy 7:25   (Read all of Deuteronomy 7)

The images of their gods you are to burn in the fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 7:26   (Read all of Deuteronomy 7)

Do not bring a detestable thing into your house or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. Regard it as vile and utterly detest it, for it is set apart for destruction.

Deuteronomy 8:1   (Read all of Deuteronomy 8)

Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors.

Deuteronomy 8:4   (Read all of Deuteronomy 8)

Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.